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

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> 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

Could I instead use this last line as part of an alias?  (Would I put 
something else instead of the "$@" - %s ?)