srf21c
October 25th, 2006, 10:39 PM
You may have found yourself cursing the fact that many documentation files in /usr/share/doc are compressed, and thus somewhat tedious to read since you have to unzip them first.
Never fear, there is a much more elegant way to go about it...zless to the rescue! Simply type zless and then the name of the gnuzipped file *.gz like so:
bash$ zless README.gz
This will probably seem obvious to experienced users, but hopefully n00bs will find this tip helpful.
Click here for more info about the zless command and Debian package documentation (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/help-system.en/whats-installed-deb-help-sys.html)
Never fear, there is a much more elegant way to go about it...zless to the rescue! Simply type zless and then the name of the gnuzipped file *.gz like so:
bash$ zless README.gz
This will probably seem obvious to experienced users, but hopefully n00bs will find this tip helpful.
Click here for more info about the zless command and Debian package documentation (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/help-system.en/whats-installed-deb-help-sys.html)