May be simpler to use zless.
P Asokan
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Sachin Garg wrote:
> 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.
>
> sachin
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