Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files. Magicfilter will print them, as > will a2ps (maybe some others will too, haven't tried it.) Netscape reads > them, so does lynx. And of course man and info work with them. zgrep > will grep them. vim reads them just fine. I'm drawing a blank on things > I can't do with .gz'd files...
I also mention (in bash) foobar <(zcat somefile.gz) This works for many cases where the tool needs a file rather than input on standard input. There may be some restrictions (it may not work if the tool needs random access (like gcc)). -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
