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<PRE>On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:49, volvoguy wrote:
> 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.
Under Debian putting the following in my .bashrc allows
this to work. I don't know about Ubuntu.
eval `lesspipe`
lesspipe is found in /usr/bin/lesspipe
--
Colin Bell
<A HREF="http://www.squirrelsql.org"><U>http://www.squirrelsql.org</U></A></PRE>
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