jpayne@68: .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: 0BSD
jpayne@68: .\"
jpayne@68: .\" Authors: Andrew Dudman
jpayne@68: .\"          Lasse Collin
jpayne@68: .\"
jpayne@68: .\" (Note that this file is not based on gzip's zless.1.)
jpayne@68: .\"
jpayne@68: .TH XZLESS 1 "2024-02-12" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
jpayne@68: .SH NAME
jpayne@68: xzless, lzless \- view xz or lzma compressed (text) files
jpayne@68: .SH SYNOPSIS
jpayne@68: .B xzless
jpayne@68: .RI [ file ...]
jpayne@68: .br
jpayne@68: .B lzless
jpayne@68: .RI [ file ...]
jpayne@68: .SH DESCRIPTION
jpayne@68: .B xzless
jpayne@68: is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a terminal.
jpayne@68: Files supported by
jpayne@68: .BR xz (1)
jpayne@68: are decompressed;
jpayne@68: other files are assumed to be in uncompressed form already.
jpayne@68: If no
jpayne@68: .I files
jpayne@68: are given,
jpayne@68: .B xzless
jpayne@68: reads from standard input.
jpayne@68: .PP
jpayne@68: .B xzless
jpayne@68: uses
jpayne@68: .BR less (1)
jpayne@68: to present its output.
jpayne@68: Unlike
jpayne@68: .BR xzmore ,
jpayne@68: its choice of pager cannot be altered by
jpayne@68: setting an environment variable.
jpayne@68: Commands are based on both
jpayne@68: .BR more (1)
jpayne@68: and
jpayne@68: .BR vi (1)
jpayne@68: and allow back and forth movement and searching.
jpayne@68: See the
jpayne@68: .BR less (1)
jpayne@68: manual for more information.
jpayne@68: .PP
jpayne@68: The command named
jpayne@68: .B lzless
jpayne@68: is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.
jpayne@68: .SH ENVIRONMENT
jpayne@68: .TP
jpayne@68: .B LESSMETACHARS
jpayne@68: A list of characters special to the shell.
jpayne@68: Set by
jpayne@68: .B xzless
jpayne@68: unless it is already set in the environment.
jpayne@68: .TP
jpayne@68: .B LESSOPEN
jpayne@68: Set to a command line to invoke the
jpayne@68: .BR xz (1)
jpayne@68: decompressor for preprocessing the input files to
jpayne@68: .BR less (1).
jpayne@68: .SH "SEE ALSO"
jpayne@68: .BR less (1),
jpayne@68: .BR xz (1),
jpayne@68: .BR xzmore (1),
jpayne@68: .BR zless (1)