XZLESS
Section: XZ Utils (1)
Updated: 2010-09-27
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NAME
xzless, lzless - view xz or lzma compressed (text) files
SYNOPSIS
xzless
[
file...]
lzless
[
file...]
DESCRIPTION
xzless
is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a terminal.
It works on files compressed with
xz(1)
or
lzma(1).
If no
files
are given,
xzless
reads from standard input.
xzless
uses
less(1)
to present its output.
Unlike
xzmore,
its choice of pager cannot be altered by
setting an environment variable.
Commands are based on both
more(1)
and
vi(1)
and allow back and forth movement and searching.
See the
less(1)
manual for more information.
The command named
lzless
is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.
ENVIRONMENT
- LESSMETACHARS
-
A list of characters special to the shell.
Set by
xzless
unless it is already set in the environment.
- LESSOPEN
-
Set to a command line to invoke the
xz(1)
decompressor for preprocessing the input files to
less(1).
SEE ALSO
less(1),
xz(1),
xzmore(1),
zless(1)