Hi,
I use less to peek into tarballs; and deb files, and so on. I
am appending my version of the lessopen script (look at
/usr/bin/lesspipe and /usr/doc/less/LESOPEN.gz). No fuss, no muss,
and I don't have to learn how to use mc ;-)
manoj
#!/bin/sh
# Decode directories:
if [ -d "$1" ]; then
echo "$1:"; ls -als $1
else
case "$1" in
*.tar.gz|*.tgz|*.tar.Z)
tar tzvvf $1
zcat $1
;;
*.Z|*.gz)
gunzip -c $1
;;
*.bz2)
bunzip2 -ckd $1
;;
*.bz)
bunzip -ckd $1
;;
*.tar)
tar tvf $1
cat $1
;;
*.deb)
echo "$1:";
dpkg --info $1;
echo -e '\n*** Contents:';
dpkg-deb --contents $1
;;
*.zip|*.ZIP)
if [ -x /usr/bin/unzip ]; then
unzip -v $1;
else
echo "No unzip available";
fi
;;
*.lzh)
if [ -x /usr/bin/lha ]; then
lha v $1;
else
echo "No lha available";
fi
;;
*.rpm)
if [ -x /usr/bin/rpm ]; then
echo $1;
rpm -q -i -p $1;
echo -e '\n*** Contents:';
rpm -q -l -p $1;
else
echo "No rpm available";
fi
;;
*.zoo)
if [ -x /usr/bin/zoo ]; then
zoo v $1;
else
echo "No zoo available";
fi
;;
*.arj|*.ARJ)
if [ -x /usr/bin/unarj ]; then
unarj -v $1;
else
echo "No unarj available";
fi
;;
*.gif|*.jpeg|*.jpg|*.pcd|*.png|*.tga|*.tiff|*.tif)
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/identify ]; then
/usr/X11R6/bin/identify $1;
else
echo -e "No identify available
echo -e Install ImageMagick to browse images";
fi
;;
esac
fi
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"but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in." --Larry Wall
in Configure from the perl distribution
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