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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I read MANIFEST.gz with zless.  Is there some similar way to read a
> > .bz2 file?  I suppose you could bunzip2 then gzip the result to get
> > a .gz again.
>
> bunzip2 -c MANIFEST.bz2 | less
>
> would work. You could probably put
>
> #!/bin/sh
> bunzip2 -c "$@" | less


This uncompresses the file.bz2 to the screen and then pipes it to less. I 
just figured out that BL3 zless is a little script that uses zcat which is 
actually busybox gzip to do something similar, plus less. Clever.

> in /usr/bin/bzless (or something like that) if you don't want to type
> that in all the time. Some packages of less probably come with the
> bzless script.
>
> > I see that bunzip2 is part of busybox - is it lacking any features
> > that we would notice?
>
> There's no bzip2, so you can only read bz2 files. The busybox bunzip2
> should uncompress every ordinary bz2, though.
>
> David
> --

Thanks for the education.
Sindi