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Lesspipe.sh
lesspipe.sh is an input filter for the pager 'less' as described in less's man page. It runs under a ksh-compatible shell (ksh, bash, zsh) and lets you use 'less' to view compressed files, archives, and files contained in archives. Viewing files by accessing a device file has been implemented for DOS filesystems and tar files only.
The following formats are currently supported (both as plain and compressed files using compress, gzip, bzip2, or zip): tar, nroff, (sh)ar, executables, directories, RPM and Debian (.deb) Archives, Microsoft Word, files and PDF.
Last updated 19 Jul, 2005
About
Leadership
- Wolfgang Friebel - Maintainer
- Florian Cramer - Contributor
- Derek B. Noonburg - Contributor
- Heinrich Kuettler - Contributor
Requirements
- bash (2.04 or later) *or* ksh *or* zsh (Use Requirement)
- file (GNU file 3.27 or above recommended) (Use Requirement)
- gzip/bzip2/unzip (depending on compression method used) (Use Requirement)
- GNU tar (Weak Prerequisite)
- groff (Weak Prerequisite)
- ar (Weak Prerequisite)
- nm (Weak Prerequisite)
- strings (Weak Prerequisite)
- rpm (Weak Prerequisite)
- rpm2cpio (Weak Prerequisite)
- GNU cpio (Weak Prerequisite)
- antiword (Weak Prerequisite)
- dpkg (Weak Prerequisite)
- dpkg-deb (Weak Prerequisite)
- pdftotext (Weak Prerequisite)
- mdir (Weak Prerequisite)
- mtype (Weak Prerequisite)
- mtoolstest (according to which file type you are using) (Weak Prerequisite)
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Versions
1.52
1.52 stable released 2005-07-19
- Released: 19 Jul, 2005
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/less/l...
- Licenses: GPLv2
- Interfaces: Command Line