On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:08:45AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > > > I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. > > > > There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless > > program can just consult the magic db to determine which decompression > > program > > to use. > > FWIW, if you the following in your bashrc: > > if [ -f /usr/bin/lesspipe ]; then > eval "$(lesspipe)" > fi > > you can just "less somegzfile" or "less somebzipfile". In squeeze you > can't use less on a xz compressed file, but I guess that could be added.
lesspipe doesn't support xz in unstable, too. There's a patch in #572228 (and at least one fool just wrote a duplicate before checking for existing ones), but the patch is rotting in the BTS. Anibal: would you care to apply it? -- 1KB // Yo momma uses IPv4!
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