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xzless(1)


NAME

   xzless, lzless - view xz or lzma compressed (text) files

SYNOPSIS

   xzless [file...]
   lzless [file...]

DESCRIPTION

   xzless  is  a  filter  that  displays  text  from compressed files to a
   terminal.  It works on files compressed with xz(1) or lzma(1).   If  no
   files are given, xzless reads from standard input.

   xzless  uses  less(1) to present its output.  Unlike xzmore, its choice
   of  pager  cannot  be  altered  by  setting  an  environment  variable.
   Commands  are  based on both more(1) and vi(1) and allow back and forth
   movement and searching.  See the less(1) manual for more information.

   The command named lzless is provided for  backward  compatibility  with
   LZMA Utils.

ENVIRONMENT

   LESSMETACHARS
          A list of characters special to the shell.  Set by xzless unless
          it is already set in the environment.

   LESSOPEN
          Set to a command line  to  invoke  the  xz(1)  decompressor  for
          preprocessing the input files to less(1).

SEE ALSO

   less(1), xz(1), xzmore(1), zless(1)



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