The Gentoo version of lesspipe¹ is vastly superior: It supports files inside archive, archive compression detection (all these .(sh|txt|log|...).gz + compressed manpages and other files commonly compressed in /usr/share/, ...) and, most of all, filetype detection through `file` in case no extension is detected.
This allows supporting common cases like: * ~/.bin/myscript is a shell-script (use color) * /bin/ls is an ELF (use readelf -a) * ~/bin/data is data (use hexdump -C) Moreover, Gentoo's version of lesspipe: - has better code: use of functions which open way to go back and forth between file detection and various fallback methods - use a more granular way to define its behavior (according to arguments values and not only arguments count) which makes it vastly superior. (eg: a ~/.lessfilter file could makes some custom things in order to detect a filetype and just then rerun lesspipe while specifying the extension) Please note that Gentoo's lesspipe use /bin/bash (would be interesting to know which Debian setup(s) make lesspipe /bin/sh dependant) ¹ http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/less/files/lesspipe.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
