X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=gzip;a=blobdiff_plain;f=zless.1;fp=zless.1;h=26d0ddd3b00ae65f588a7b05439bf34e18c4ccac;hp=ca02423126157d32b6657a56c29575b9fcce889b;hb=a7660333f1a126dea0cfb50797099f790283d1b6;hpb=47dc1883f1f730f9576ae0e6090ead01732ff4ff diff --git a/zless.1 b/zless.1 index ca02423..26d0ddd 100644 --- a/zless.1 +++ b/zless.1 @@ -13,20 +13,20 @@ and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to "';*?"()<>[|&^`#\\$%=~'", and then running .IR less . -However, enough people seem to think that having the -command -.I zless -available is important to be worth providing it. - -Note that zless does not work with files piped to it on stdin, it only works -with files specified as arguments. If you really want to use less in a pipe, -then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of using zless. +.I Less +now provides similar, and more flexible, functionality through the +.I lessfile +and +.I lesspipe +filters. .SH "SEE ALSO" -zmore(1), less(1) +zmore(1), less(1), lessfile(1), lesspipe(1) .SH "BUGS" .I Zless does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments. +If you really want to use less in a pipe, +then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of using zless. .SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE" Copyright \(co 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .br