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
       decompressed; other files are assumed to be in uncompressed form already.  If no files are given,  xzless
       reads from standard input.

       xzless  uses  less(1)  to  present  its  output.  Unlike xzmore, its choice of pager cannot be altered by
       setting an environment 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 removed 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)