NAME

       xzless, lzless - view xz or lzma compressed (text) files

SYNOPSIS

       xzless [file...]
       lzless [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       xzless  is a filter that displays text from compressed files to a terminal.  It works on files compressed
       with xz(1) or lzma(1).  If no files are given, xzless reads from standard input.

       xzless uses less(1) to present its output.  Unlike xzmore, its choice  of  pager  cannot  be  altered  by
       setting  an  environment variable.  Commands are based on both more(1) and vi(1) and allow back and forth
       movement and searching.  See the less(1) manual for more information.

       The command named lzless is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.

ENVIRONMENT

       LESSMETACHARS
              A list of characters special to the shell.  Set  by  xzless  unless  it  is  already  set  in  the
              environment.

       LESSOPEN
              Set  to  a  command  line  to  invoke  the xz(1) decompressor for preprocessing the input files to
              less(1).

SEE ALSO

       less(1), xz(1), xzmore(1), zless(1)