zmore
,
zless
—
view compressed files
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 the user's preferred
PAGER
(which is
/usr/bin/more by default).
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:
e
or q
- quit
zmore
.
s
- skip the next file (or exit if the next file is the last).
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.
- Program used to display files. If unset,
/usr/bin/more is used
(
zmore
) or
/usr/bin/less
(zless
).
compress(1),
less(1),
more(1)