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author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-09-27 23:29:34 +0300 |
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committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-09-27 23:29:34 +0300 |
commit | cec0ddc8ec4ce81685a51998b978e22167e461f9 (patch) | |
tree | ec8d24147a46b901f215ab3bed6cac17fa0108bc /src/scripts/xzless.1 | |
parent | Fix the preset -3e. (diff) | |
download | xz-cec0ddc8ec4ce81685a51998b978e22167e461f9.tar.xz |
Major man page updates.
Lots of content was updated on the xz man page.
Technical improvements:
- Start a new sentence on a new line.
- Use fairly short lines.
- Use constant-width font for examples (where supported).
- Some minor cleanups.
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some language fixes.
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-rw-r--r-- | src/scripts/xzless.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/scripts/xzless.1 b/src/scripts/xzless.1 index 299806fd..2d05459d 100644 --- a/src/scripts/xzless.1 +++ b/src/scripts/xzless.1 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ .\" .\" (Note that this file is not based on gzip's zless.1.) .\" -.TH XZLESS 1 "2009-07-05" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" +.TH XZLESS 1 "2010-09-27" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" .SH NAME xzless, lzless \- view xz or lzma compressed (text) files .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ xzless, lzless \- view xz or lzma compressed (text) files .B lzless .RI [ file ...] .SH DESCRIPTION -.B xzless +.B xzless is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a terminal. It works on files compressed with .BR xz (1) @@ -32,9 +32,11 @@ reads from standard input. .B xzless uses .BR less (1) -to present its output. Unlike +to present its output. +Unlike .BR xzmore , -its choice of pager cannot be altered by setting an environment variable. +its choice of pager cannot be altered by +setting an environment variable. Commands are based on both .BR more (1) and @@ -50,7 +52,8 @@ is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP .B LESSMETACHARS -A list of characters special to the shell. Set by +A list of characters special to the shell. +Set by .B xzless unless it is already set in the environment. .TP |