Simple file viewer

[Steve Flynn]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 13 Mar 2010 at 11:36:06 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>
>> Would someone please recommend a simple file viewer.  I am looking for a
>> viewer that will display the contents of a file no matter what type it
>> is.  If I can't read what it displays, I will just close it and move on.

I personally find lesspipe utterly invaluable for this kind of thing.
In fact, less is aliased to lesspipe.sh on my boxes.

http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html



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Steve
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