NAME
zless – file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed textSYNOPSIS
zless [ name … ]DESCRIPTION
Zless is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. It is the equivalent of setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to ‘|gzip -cdfq — %s’, and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to ‘<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~’, and then running less. However, enough people seem to think that having the command zless available is important to be worth providing it.
Willie
Willie has over 15 years of experience in Linux system administration and DevOps. After managing infrastructure for startups and enterprises alike, he founded Command Linux to share the practical knowledge he wished he had when starting out. He oversees content strategy and contributes guides on server management, automation, and security.