Manual: xzless

XZLESS(1)						  XZ Utils						   XZLESS(1)

NAME
       xzless, lzless - view xz or lzma compressed (text) files

SYNOPSIS
       xzless [file...]
       lzless [file...]	 (DEPRECATED)

DESCRIPTION
       xzless  is  a  filter  that  displays  text from compressed files to a terminal.	 Files supported by xz(1) are decom‐
       pressed; other files are assumed to be in uncompressed form already.  If no files are given, xzless reads from  stan‐
       dard input.

       xzless  uses less(1) to present its output.  Unlike xzmore, its choice of pager cannot be altered by setting an envi‐
       ronment variable.  Commands are based on both more(1) and vi(1) and allow back and forth movement and searching.	 See
       the less(1) manual for more information.

       The command named lzless is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.	 It is deprecated and  will  be	 re‐
       moved in a future version.

ENVIRONMENT
       LESSMETACHARS
	      A list of characters special to the shell.  Set by xzless unless it is already set in the environment.

       LESSOPEN
	      Set to a command line to invoke the xz(1) decompressor for preprocessing the input files to less(1).

SEE ALSO
       less(1), xz(1), xzmore(1), zless(1)

Tukaani							 2025-03-06						   XZLESS(1)