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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2009-07-05 22:25:17 +0300 |
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| committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2009-07-05 22:25:17 +0300 |
| commit | 96e4b257e101d72072d43e144897d92920270669 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f1852c0c90b41b66dd0b24ba8719b68cea5d048 /src/scripts/xzless.1 | |
| parent | Use @PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE@ in liblzma.pc.in. (diff) | |
| download | xz-96e4b257e101d72072d43e144897d92920270669.tar.xz | |
Major update to the xzgrep and other scripts based on
the latest versions found from gzip CVS repository.
configure will try to find a POSIX shell to be used by
the scripts. This should ease portability on systems
which have pre-POSIX /bin/sh.
xzgrep and xzdiff support .xz, .lzma, .gz, and .bz2 files.
xzmore and xzless support only .xz and .lzma files.
The name of the xz executable used in these scripts is
now correct even if --program-transform-name has been used.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/scripts/xzless.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/scripts/xzless.1 | 66 |
1 files changed, 66 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/scripts/xzless.1 b/src/scripts/xzless.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4fe4bcba --- /dev/null +++ b/src/scripts/xzless.1 @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +.\" +.\" Authors: Andrew Dudman +.\" Lasse Collin +.\" +.\" This file has been put into the public domain. +.\" You can do whatever you want with this file. +.\" +.\" (Note that this file is not based on gzip's zless.1.) +.\" +.TH XZLESS 1 "2009-07-05" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" +.SH NAME +xzless, lzless \- view xz or lzma compressed (text) files +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B xzless +.RI [ file ...] +.br +.B lzless +.RI [ file ...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B xzless +is a filter that displays pagefulls of uncompressed text from compressed +file(s) to a terminal. It works on files compressed with +.BR xz (1) +or +.BR lzma (1). +If no +.I files +are given, +.B xzless +reads from standard input. +.PP +.B xzless +uses +.BR less (1) +as its only pager. Unlike +.BR xzmore , +the choice of pagers is not alterable by an environment variable. +Commands are based on both +.BR more (1) +and +.BR vi (1), +and allow back and forth movement and searching. +See the +.BR less (1) +manual for more information. +.PP +The command named +.B lzless +is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.TP +.B LESSMETACHARS +A list of characters special to the shell. Set by +.B xzless +unless it is already set in the environment. +.TP +.B LESSOPEN +Set to a command line to invoke the +.BR xz (1) +decompressor for preprocessing the input files to +.BR less (1). +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR less (1), +.BR xz (1), +.BR xzmore (1), +.BR zless (1) |