> Shanker Balan wrote: > > > > Hi dudes, > > > > Any idea how i can use 'less' to view compressed text files like README.gz? > > there is some lessrc file or less.conf or something, where u can ask > less to call the specified gunzip or whatever before passing it to less. Atleast on RH there is a shell script "zless" that does what you say. If your distro doesn't have zless, it should be trivial to make one.. zcat $@ | less should be sufficient. Kedar. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
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