BZMORE(1)

Manual page for bzmore, from the General Commands Manual, section 1 🎀 okay bestie, let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bzmore and bzless are file perusal filters for looking at bzip2 compressed text on a crt screen 🖥️💅 literally the whole vibe is reading compressed text without it being a mess 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bzmore [ name ...  ]
bzless [ name ...  ]

✨ NOTE ✨

ngl this part is so important 🫶 in everything below, bzless and less can be used interchangeably with bzmore and more. same energy, different name 💜

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so bzmore is a filter that lets you look at compressed or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal 📺✨ it works on files compressed with bzip2 AND on uncompressed files, so it's giving versatile 💅

bestie, if a file doesn't exist, bzmore will look for a file with the same name plus a .bz2 suffix 🧚

bzmore pauses after each screenful and prints --More-- at the bottom of the screen 🙈 if you hit carriage return, you get one more line. if you hit space, you get another whole screenful. there are more options, which I'll list below 🌸

bzmore checks /etc/termcap to figure out your terminal's characteristics and the default window size 🔥 on a terminal that can show 24 lines, the default window is 22 lines. here's what else you can type while bzmore is paused (i is an optional integer, and it defaults to 1) 👑

• i<space> — shows i more lines. no number? you get another screenful 📜
• ^D — shows 11 more lines (a "scroll" 🍓). if you give an i, the scroll size becomes i 💖
• d — same as ^D (control-D) ✨
• iz — same as space, except if you include an i, it becomes the new window size 🎀 heads up, the window size goes back to default at the end of the current file 🥺
• is — skips i lines and then prints a screenful 🦋
• if — skips i screenfuls and then prints a screenful 🌈
• q or Q — quits the current file and moves on to the next one (if there is one) 💅
• e or q — when you see --More--(Next file: file), this makes bzmore exit 💀
• s — when you see --More--(Next file: file), this makes bzmore skip the next file and keep going 🫶
• = — shows the current line number 🔢
• i/expr — searches for the i-th occurrence of the regular expression expr 🔍 if it isn't found, bzmore moves on to the next file (if any). if it IS found, you get a screenful starting two lines before the match 😭 you can use your erase and kill characters to edit the regex, and if you erase back past the first column, the search gets cancelled 🙈
• in — searches for the i-th occurrence of the last regular expression you entered ✨
• !command — invokes a shell with command 🐚 the character ! in "command" gets replaced with the previous shell command, and the sequence \! gets replaced with ! 🧠
• :q or :Q — same as q or Q, quits the current file and moves to the next (if any) 👑
• . — (dot) repeats the previous command 🔁

no cap, these commands take effect immediately, so you don't need to hit carriage return 🙌 before you type the command character itself, you can hit your line kill character to cancel the number you were building 🧹 you can also hit your erase character to bring back the --More-- message 🫧

⚠️ bestie, at any time when output is going to the terminal, you can hit the quit key (usually control-). bzmore will stop sending output and show the usual --More-- prompt. then you can type any of the commands above like normal. BUT some output gets lost when you do this, because any characters waiting in the terminal's output queue get flushed when the quit signal happens 😭💀

bzmore sets the terminal to noecho mode so the output can keep flowing 🌊 which means what you type won't show up on your screen, except for the / and ! commands 👀

if standard output isn't a teletype, bzmore acts just like bzcat, except it prints a header before each file 🎀

✨ FILES ✨

• /etc/termcap — the terminal database 🗂️

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

more(1), less(1), bzip2(1), bzdiff(1), bzgrep(1) 🦋

okay that's the whole tea, bestie 🌈💖 the footer says it's BZMORE(1), so you know exactly where to find me when you need more Unix in your life 💅✨