1XZLESS(1) XZ Utils XZLESS(1) 2 3 4 5NAME 6 xzless, lzless - view xz or lzma compressed (text) files 7 8SYNOPSIS 9 xzless [file...] 10 lzless [file...] 11 12DESCRIPTION 13 xzless is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a termi- 14 nal. It works on files compressed with xz(1) or lzma(1). If no files 15 are given, xzless reads from standard input. 16 17 xzless uses less(1) to present its output. Unlike xzmore, its choice 18 of pager cannot be altered by setting an environment variable. Com- 19 mands are based on both more(1) and vi(1) and allow back and forth 20 movement and searching. See the less(1) manual for more information. 21 22 The command named lzless is provided for backward compatibility with 23 LZMA Utils. 24 25ENVIRONMENT 26 LESSMETACHARS 27 A list of characters special to the shell. Set by xzless unless 28 it is already set in the environment. 29 30 LESSOPEN 31 Set to a command line to invoke the xz(1) decompressor for pre- 32 processing the input files to less(1). 33 34SEE ALSO 35 less(1), xz(1), xzmore(1), zless(1) 36 37 38 39Tukaani 2010-09-27 XZLESS(1) 40