From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 16:59:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C1316A4BF for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.knology.net (smtp2.knology.net [24.214.63.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBEDC43F85 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:59:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 12134 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2003 23:59:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grumpy.dyndns.org) (24.214.34.52) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 29 Aug 2003 23:59:42 -0000 Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7TNxdoQ042695 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:59:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7TNxdEe042694 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:59:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:59:39 -0500 From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030829235939.GE42454@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200308271100.42049.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <20030828043747.GA1206@terminator.client.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030828043747.GA1206@terminator.client.attbi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: zmore for bzip2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:59:45 -0000 On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:37:47PM -0500, ES top-posted: > For your bzip2 files, would the following command suffice? > > bzcat | less [...] Yes, of course. But zmore is smart enough to figure out what to do with several compression techniques, or even to handle non-compressed files very trivially and without hassle. I've changed my /etc/newsyslog.conf from J to Z simply so that I could zmore the files rather than pipe the file or dress up an alias named bmore or similar. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.