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<H2><A NAME="bzip2-with-less"></A> <A NAME="s5">5. Using bzip2 with less</A></H2>
<P>To uncompress bzip2'd files on the fly, i.e. to be able to use "less"
on them without first bunzip2'ing them, you can make a lesspipe.sh (man
less) like this:
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#!/bin/sh
# This is a preprocessor for 'less'. It is used when this environment
# variable is set: LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
case "$1" in
*.tar) tar tvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;; # View contents of various tar'd files
*.tgz) tar tzvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
# This one work for the unmodified version of tar:
*.tar.bz2) bzip2 -cd $1 $1 2>/dev/null | tar tvvf - ;;
#This one works with the patched version of tar:
# *.tar.bz2) tyvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.tar.gz) tar tzvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.tar.Z) tar tzvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.tar.z) tar tzvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.bz2) bzip2 -dc $1 2>/dev/null ;; # View compressed files correctly
*.Z) gzip -dc $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.z) gzip -dc $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.gz) gzip -dc $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.zip) unzip -l $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.1|*.2|*.3|*.4|*.5|*.6|*.7|*.8|*.9|*.n|*.man) FILE=`file -L $1` ; # groff src
FILE=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
if [ "$FILE" = "troff" ]; then
groff -s -p -t -e -Tascii -mandoc $1
fi ;;
*) cat $1 2>/dev/null ;;
# *) FILE=`file -L $1` ; # Check to see if binary, if so -- view with 'strings'
# FILE1=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
# FILE2=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 3`
# if [ "$FILE1" = "Linux/i386" -o "$FILE2" = "Linux/i386" \
# -o "$FILE1" = "ELF" -o "$FILE2" = "ELF" ]; then
# strings $1
# fi ;;
esac
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