$OpenBSD: zmore.1,v 1.10 2009/08/16 09:41:08 sobrado Exp $
Copyright (c) 2003 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
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Sponsored in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
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Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number F39502-99-1-0512.
.Dd October 22, 2014 .Dt ZMORE 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm zmore , .Nm zless .Nd view compressed files .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm zmore .Op Ar flags .Op Ar .Nm zless .Op Ar flags .Op Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a filter that allows the viewing of files compressed with Lempel-Ziv encoding. Such files generally have a .Dq Z or .Dq gz extension (both the .Xr compress 1 and .Xr gzip 1 formats are supported). Any .Ar flags that are specified are passed to the user's preferred .Ev PAGER (which is
p .Nm zless is equivalent to .Nm zmore but uses .Xr less 1 as a pager instead of .Xr more 1 .
p When multiple files are specified, .Nm will pause at the end of each file and present the following prompt to the user: d -literal -offset indent prev_file (END) - Next: next_file .Ed
p Where .Sy prev_file is the file that was just displayed and .Sy next_file is the next file to be displayed. The following keys are recognized at the prompt: l -tag -width "e or q" -offset indent t Ic e No or Ic q quit .Nm zmore . t Ic s skip the next file (or exit if the next file is the last). .El
p If no files are specified, .Nm will read from the standard input. In this mode .Nm will assume .Xr gzip 1 style compression since there is no suffix on which to make a decision. .Sh ENVIRONMENT l -tag -width "PAGER" t Ev PAGER Program used to display files. If unset,
q Nm zmore or
q Nm zless . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr compress 1 , .Xr less 1 , .Xr more 1