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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:37:47 -0500
From:      ES <bsdterm@hotpop.com>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zmore for bzip2?
Message-ID:  <20030828043747.GA1206@terminator.client.attbi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200308271100.42049.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
References:  <200308271100.42049.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>

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For your bzip2 files, would the following command suffice?

bzcat <filename> | less

This would be similar to handling a gzipped file with:

zcat <filename> | less

...which is essentially what "zmore" does...

-bsdterm


On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:00:42AM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> /etc/newsyslog.conf uses J in FreeBSD-5.1 to specify bzip2 format for 
> compression. zmore(1) doesn't know bzip format, is someone working on 
> it?
> 
> -- 
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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