Package: less
Version: 551-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi!
zstd is a newish compression algorithm, which thoroughly beats most of
competing compressors for a good part of the ratio:time envelope.
It would be good teach lesspipe how to handle it transparently.
Here's a patch for .zst and .tar.zst/.tzst
Meow!
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>From 7cc42d7b82b1caef7294e00c3ed19f29292954a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:02:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] lesspipe: support zstd-compressed files
---
debian/lesspipe | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/debian/lesspipe b/debian/lesspipe
index 98224b0..0818538 100644
--- a/debian/lesspipe
+++ b/debian/lesspipe
@@ -222,6 +222,14 @@ if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
fi
;;
+ *.tar.zst|*.tzst)
+ if [ -x "`which zstd`" ]; then
+ zstd -qdc "$1" | tar tfvv -
+ else
+ echo "No zstd available"
+ fi
+ ;;
+
*.whl)
if [ -x "`which unzip`" ]; then
unzip -p "$1" '*.dist-info/METADATA' |
sed '/^$/q'
@@ -239,6 +247,14 @@ if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
fi
;;
+ *.zst)
+ if [ -x "`which zstd`" ]; then
+ zstd -qdc "$1"
+ else
+ echo "No zstd available"
+ fi
+ ;;
+
# Note that this is out of alpha order so that we don't
catch
# the gzipped tar files.
*.gz|*.z|*.dz)
--
2.27.0
