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- .\" Authors: Andrew Dudman
- .\" Lasse Collin
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- .\" You can do whatever you want with this file.
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- .\" (Note that this file is not based on gzip's zless.1.)
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- .TH XZLESS 1 "2010-09-27" "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 text from compressed files 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)
- to present its output.
- Unlike
- .BR xzmore ,
- its choice of pager cannot be altered by
- setting 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)
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