On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 12:30:26AM +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote: > > > > Are you sure it's quicker to do `ls' first to know how that > > changelog is named, and after `less', that to always do `zless'? > > You can use zless on non-compressed files, and you can use filename > completion to get the filename. Or you can configure your lesspipe > script to automatically decompress files.
You don't even need to make a lesspipe script yourself. The default script is quite good. You only have to do something like LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s' export LESSOPEN somewhere in your .bash_profile or in /etc/profile (or in whatever file is appropriate if you don't use bash). Remco
