Description
A preprocessor for less.
Usually lesspipe.sh is called as an input filter to less. With the help of that filter less will display the uncompressed contents of compressed (gzip, bzip2, compress, rar, 7-zip, lzip, xz or lzma) files. For files containing archives and directories, a table of contents will be displayed (e.g tar, ar, rar, jar, rpm and deb formats). Other supported formats include nroff, pdf, ps, dvi, shared library, MS word, OASIS (e.g. Openoffice), NetCDF, html, mp3, jpg, png, iso images, MacOSX bom, plist and archive formats, perl storable data and gpg encrypted files. This does require additional helper programs being installed.