zmore
is a filter that allows the viewing of files compressed with Lempel-Ziv
encoding.
Such files generally have a
"Z"
or
"gz"
extension (both the
compress(1)
and
gzip(1)
formats are supported).
Any
flags
that are specified are passed to the user's preferred
PAGER
(which is
/usr/bin/more
by default).
zless
is equivalent to
zmore
but uses
less(1)
as a pager instead of
more(1).
When multiple files are specified,
zmore
will pause at the end of each file and present the following prompt to the user:
prev_file (END) - Next: next_file
Where
prev_file
is the file that was just displayed and
next_file
is the next file to be displayed.
The following keys are recognized at the prompt:
|
| e or q
|
quit
zmore.
|
| s
|
skip the next file (or exit if the next file is the last).
|
|
If no files are specified,
zmore
will read from the standard input.
In this mode
zmore
will assume
gzip(1)
style compression since there is no suffix on which to make a decision.
