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SYNOPSIS
       zless [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Zless  is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
       files one screenful at a time on  a  soft-copy  terminal.   It  is  the
       equivalent of setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to "|gzip -cdfq
       -- %s", and then running less.  However, enough people  seem  to  think
       that  having  the command zless available is important to be worth pro‐
       viding it.

       Note that zless does not work with files piped to it on stdin, it  only
       works  with  files  specified  as arguments.  If you really want to use
       less in a pipe, then do the uncompress  explicitly  and  pipe  to  less
       instead of zless.

SEE ALSO
       zmore(1), less(1)

BUGS
       Zless  does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via stan‐
       dard input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE
       Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       Copyright © 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly

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       Permission  is granted to copy and distribute translations of this man‐
       ual into another language, under the above conditions for modified ver‐
       sions,  except  that this permission notice may be stated in a transla‐
       tion approved by the Foundation.



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