viewing contents of tar/tar.gz/tgz files

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 18.10.2004, 03:49 -0400 schrieb volvoguy:
> I'll admit - I'm no command line whiz, so the answer to my question
> may be embarrasingly simple.
> 
> I'm used to being able to run:
> 
> less somefile.tar.gz
> 
> and have it display the contents of the file.
> 
> When I do this in Ubuntu, I get the message:
> 
> '"somefile.tar.gz" may be a binary file.  See it anyway?'
> 
> So what's different in Ubuntu that it doesn't allow me to do what I've
> been doing for years on other distros?
be happy, they obviously had set up the alias to zless from less for
you....
try zless for reading tarred/zipped files....there may also be a
tutorial how to set it up with less as an alias anywhere in the google
world...

ciao
	oli

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