ZLESS(1) ZLESS(1) NAME zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text SYNOPSIS zless [ name ... ] DESCRIPTION Zless is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. It is the equivalent of setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to |gzip -cdfq -- %s, and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to ";*?"()<>[|&^#\$%=~", and then running less. Less now provides similar, and more flexible, functionality through the lessfile and lesspipe filters. SEE ALSO zmore(1), less(1), lessfile(1), lesspipe(1) BUGS Zless does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via stan dard input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments. If you really want to use less in a pipe, then do the uncompress explic itly and pipe to less instead of using zless. COPYRIGHT NOTICE Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a per mission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this man ual into another language, under the above conditions for modified ver sions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a transla tion approved by the Foundation. ZLESS(1)