Debian bug report logs - #1776
zless missing

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Subject: Re: Bug#1776: zless missing
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Hello,

> Someone else (Ian J?) pointed out earlier that zmore uses whatever
> file pager is specified by the PAGER environment variable.

of course, but i am used to type zless instead of zmore. The same way i am
used to type less and not more. Especially on an GNU System I expect zless
as i expect less. I dont think we should require millions of ppl to include
an alias into their .xxxx_profile if they want the usual behaviour.

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On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, eckes wrote:

> Package: gzip
> 
> I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of
> zless is:
> 
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> for args
> do
>     zcat $args | less
> done

Someone else (Ian J?) pointed out earlier that zmore uses whatever
file pager is specified by the PAGER environment variable.

export PAGER=less            # in ~/.bash_profile, or other setup file
zmore file1 file2 file3      # this will use less, not more

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From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
To: eckes <ecki@lina.inka.de>, debian-bugs@Pixar.com
Subject: Re: Bug#1776: zless missing

ecki@lina.inka.de writes ("Bug#1776: zless missing"):
> Package: gzip
> 
> I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of
> zless is:
> 
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> for args
> do
>     zcat $args | less
> done
> ---

This is a bad implementation.  A better one would be:

#!/bin/sh -
PAGER=less
export PAGER
exec zmore "$@"

We've had this request twice now - can we put this script in
/usr/bin/zless ?

Ian.

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From: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: Bug#1776: zless missing
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> Package: gzip
> 
> I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of
> zless is:

Just set your PAGER environment variable to 'less' and use zmore.

Is anyone else getting tired of seeing this question asked every week
or so?  Perhaps the gzip package maintainer should just add a zless
script which does this and be done with it.

David
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Subject: zless missing
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Package: gzip

I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of
zless is:

---
#!/bin/sh
for args
do
    zcat $args | less
done
---

Greetings
Bernd
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