bz3less(1)

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version 1.5.5 · 14 versions

1.5.5 · arch rolling, epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44 (latest)
1.4.0 · opensuse-leap 16.0
1.5.3 · nixos 26.05
1.3.1 · epel 9
1.5.5 · nixpkgs unstable
1.5.3 · alpine 3.24
1.5.3 · ubuntu stonking
1.5.2 · ubuntu questing
1.5.4 · fedora 43, fedora 44
1.5.3 · fedora 44
1.2.2 · debian bookworm
1.4.0 · ubuntu noble
1.5.3 · fedora 43, ubuntu resolute
1.5.1 · debian trixie

, in arch rolling, epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ NAME ✨

bz3less — the little icon that lets u view your bzip3-compressed files 🎀 no cap

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bz3less [flags] [file ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so bestie, listen. bz3less is literally the main character of "i just wanna look at this file, not actually decompress it to disk" 💅

Here's the vibe: it takes your files (or stdin, if you didn't hand it any file arguments at all 🙈) and runs less(1) on them — but only after decompressing them with bz3cat(1) first. So the decompression is lowkey happening behind the scenes, and ur just chilling in less scrolling around like nothing happened 🦋

No files argument? That's fine, she's flexible. stdin it is, bestie 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bzip3(1)
less(1)

and that's the whole page, gorgeous ✨ this lil cutie is living in version v1.5.5, and the date on the tag is 22 October 2026 — it came from the General Commands Manual section of the fam, and honestly? it ate 💅🎀💖

📦 where this page comes from

arch rolling: bzip3 1.5.5-1 · LGPL3 AND Apache
epel 10: bzip3-less 1.5.5-1.el10_3 · LGPL-3.0-or-later
fedora 43: bzip3-less 1.5.5-1.fc43 · LGPL-3.0-or-later
fedora 44: bzip3-less 1.5.5-1.fc44 · LGPL-3.0-or-later
💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on 2026-11-02: a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms