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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       xzless [file...]
       lzless [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       xzless  is  a  filter  that  displays  text  from compressed files to a
       terminal.  It works on files compressed with xz(1) or lzma(1).   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.

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)