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xzless, lzless - view xz or lzma compressed (text) files

xzless [/file/…]
lzless [/file/…]

xzless is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a terminal. Files supported by *xz*(1) are decompressed; other files are assumed to be in uncompressed form already. If no files are given, xzless reads from standard input.

xzless uses less*(1) to present its output. Unlike *xzmore, its choice of pager cannot be altered by setting an environment variable. Commands are based on both *more*(1) and *vi*(1) and allow back and forth movement and searching. See the *less*(1) manual for more information.

The command named lzless is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.

LESSMETACHARS

A list of characters special to the shell. Set by xzless unless it is already set in the environment.

LESSOPEN

Set to a command line to invoke the *xz*(1) decompressor for preprocessing the input files to *less*(1).

*less*(1), *xz*(1), *xzmore*(1), *zless*(1)