From: "Carruth, Rusty" <rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com> [snip logrotate info] > On a slightly different topic, I have found that some versions of 'less' > will automatically decompress compressed files to text. Or at least, > one time I mistakenly said 'less /var/log/syslog*' when some of them > were zipped, and LO! I didn't see any binary junk - it decompressed them > for me. YMMV!
This is actually found in *all* versions of less, at least since 1999, but the environment variable that controls this feature isn't always set. An older Ubuntu didn't set it, f'rinstance. That's: export LESSOPEN='|lesspipe.sh %s' ...so less, when invoked, checks that LESSOPEN var and pipes files through /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh , which checks the filename for a metric ton of common patterns and attempts to invoke appropriate decompressers for those patterns. Like "bzip2 -dc" for files ending in .bz2 , "bzip2 -dc | tar tvvf -" for files ending in .tar.bz2 , and so forth. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
