NAME¶
bzmore, bzless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of bzip2 compressed text
SYNOPSIS¶
bzmore [ name ... ]
bzless [ name ... ]
NOTE¶
In the following description,
bzless and
less can be used
interchangeably with
bzmore and
more.
DESCRIPTION¶
Bzmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal.
bzmore works on
files compressed with
bzip2 and also on uncompressed files. If a file
does not exist,
bzmore looks for a file of the same name with the
addition of a .bz2 suffix.
Bzmore normally pauses after each screenful, printing --More-- at the
bottom of the screen. If the user then types a carriage return, one more line
is displayed. If the user hits a space, another screenful is displayed. Other
possibilities are enumerated later.
Bzmore looks in the file
/etc/termcap to determine terminal
characteristics, and to determine the default window size. On a terminal
capable of displaying 24 lines, the default window size is 22 lines. Other
sequences which may be typed when
bzmore pauses, and their effects, are
as follows (
i is an optional integer argument, defaulting to 1) :
- i<space>
- display i more lines, (or another screenful if no
argument is given)
- ^D
- display 11 more lines (a ``scroll''). If i is given,
then the scroll size is set to i.
- d
- same as ^D (control-D)
- iz
- same as typing a space except that i, if present,
becomes the new window size. Note that the window size reverts back to the
default at the end of the current file.
- is
- skip i lines and print a screenful of lines
- if
- skip i screenfuls and print a screenful of
lines
- q or Q
- quit reading the current file; go on to the next (if
any)
- e or q
- When the prompt --More--(Next file: file) is
printed, this command causes bzmore to exit.
- s
- When the prompt --More--(Next file: file) is
printed, this command causes bzmore to skip the next file and
continue.
- =
- Display the current line number.
- i/expr
- search for the i-th occurrence of the regular
expression expr. If the pattern is not found, bzmore goes on
to the next file (if any). Otherwise, a screenful is displayed, starting
two lines before the place where the expression was found. The user's
erase and kill characters may be used to edit the regular expression.
Erasing back past the first column cancels the search command.
- in
- search for the i-th occurrence of the last regular
expression entered.
- !command
- invoke a shell with command. The character `!' in
"command" are replaced with the previous shell command. The
sequence "\!" is replaced by "!".
- :q or :Q
- quit reading the current file; go on to the next (if any)
(same as q or Q).
- .
- (dot) repeat the previous command.
The commands take effect immediately, i.e., it is not necessary to type a
carriage return. Up to the time when the command character itself is given,
the user may hit the line kill character to cancel the numerical argument
being formed. In addition, the user may hit the erase character to redisplay
the --More-- message.
At any time when output is being sent to the terminal, the user can hit the quit
key (normally control-\).
Bzmore will stop sending output, and will
display the usual --More-- prompt. The user may then enter one of the above
commands in the normal manner. Unfortunately, some output is lost when this is
done, due to the fact that any characters waiting in the terminal's output
queue are flushed when the quit signal occurs.
The terminal is set to
noecho mode by this program so that the output can
be continuous. What you type will thus not show on your terminal, except for
the / and ! commands.
If the standard output is not a teletype, then
bzmore acts just like
bzcat, except that a header is printed before each file.
FILES¶
/etc/termcap Terminal data base
SEE ALSO¶
more(1),
less(1),
bzip2(1),
bzdiff(1),
bzgrep(1)