NAME
zmore
, zless
— view compressed
files
SYNOPSIS
zmore |
[flags] [file ...] |
zless |
[flags] [file ...] |
DESCRIPTION
zmore
is a filter that allows the viewing
of files compressed with Lempel-Ziv encoding. Such files generally have a
“Z” or “gz” extension (both the
compress(1) and gzip(1) formats are supported). Any
flags that are specified are passed to
more(1) or
less(1),
respectively.
zless
is equivalent to
zmore
but uses
less(1) as a
pager instead of more(1).
When multiple files are specified, zmore
will pause at the end of each file and present the following prompt to the
user:
prev_file (END) - Next: next_file
Where prev_file is the file that was just displayed and next_file is the next file to be displayed. The following keys are recognized at the prompt:
If no files are specified, zmore
will read
from the standard input. In this mode zmore
will
assume gzip(1)
style compression since there is no suffix on which to make a decision.