XZMORE(1)

📦 version 5.8.4, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu questing

🎀 XZMORE(1) 🎀 · XZ Utils ✨

💖 NAME 💖

okay so the names here are xzmore and lzmore, and they both mean "view xz or lzma compressed (text) files" 📖✨

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

xzmore [file...]
lzmore [file...]  (DEPRECATED)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie, xzmore is the one that lets you read compressed text in your terminal 👀 It shows the text using more(1). Anything xz(1) can decompress gets unpacked for you first, and anything else is treated like it's already uncompressed, so no stress 💅 If you don't give it any files, it reads from standard input instead. And if you want the keyboard commands, those live in the more(1) manual 🎀

Heads up, though: scrolling backwards might not work, depending on how your version of more(1) is built 🙈 The reason is that xzmore sends the decompressed data to more(1) through a pipe. If you want something with more features, xzless(1) uses less(1) instead, and less(1) is way more powerful 🔥

The command lzmore is only here for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils 🫶 It's deprecated and it will be removed in a future version, so please don't build your new life around it 😭

✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

  • PAGER — If you set PAGER, its value becomes the pager instead of more(1) 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

more(1), xz(1), xzless(1), zmore(1) 💖

Tukaani, 2025-03-06, XZMORE(1) 🌈 that's the whole vibe, bestie, periodt 💅✨

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