Re: viewing gzipped files 'inline' with less (was Re: FW: kernel source patching)

2002-09-05 Thread Alex Malinovich 

Vineet Kumar said:
> * Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020831 20:30]:
>> Do you use midnight commander? You can read compressed .gz
>> text files without having to first unzip them.
>
> less can do this as well from the commandline, given that the
> environment is properly primed with "eval $(lesspipe)".  It can view
> many different types of files.  Try it on a .deb!  Have fun.

Or you can just use zless.

-Alex



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viewing gzipped files "inline" with less (was Re: FW: kernel source patching)

2002-09-04 Thread Vineet Kumar 

* Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020831 20:30]:
> Do you use midnight commander? You can read compressed .gz
> text files without having to first unzip them.

less can do this as well from the commandline, given that the
environment is properly primed with "eval $(lesspipe)".  It can view
many different types of files.  Try it on a .deb!  Have fun.

good times,
Vineet
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