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+.\"
+.\" 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)