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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) |