ZMORE(1)

🎀 ZMORE(1) 🎀

ZMORE(1) is from the General Commands Manual, and bestie, it's the cutest pager in the whole terminal 💖

✨ NAME ✨

zmore - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zmore [ name ...  ]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so zmore is a filter that lets you read compressed or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal 🖥️✨ It works on files compressed with compress, pack or gzip, and it's also totally fine with uncompressed files 🫶 If a file doesn't exist, zmore goes hunting for the same name with a .gz, .z or .Z suffix added on the end 🕵️‍♀️

By default, zmore pauses after each screenful and shows --More-- at the bottom of the screen 👀 Hit a carriage return and you get one more line. Hit a space and you get a whole new screenful. There are more moves too, listed below 🔥

zmore checks /etc/termcap to figure out what your terminal can do and how big the default window should be. On a terminal that can show 24 lines, the default window is 22 lines 🦋 If you'd rather use a pager other than the default more, set the environment variable PAGER to the name of the program you want, like less 🌈

Here's the rest of the commands you can type while zmore is paused. The i is an optional integer argument, and it defaults to 1 ✨

• i<space> — shows i more lines (or another full screenful if you don't give a number) 🌸
• ^D — shows 11 more lines (a "scroll") 🎀 If you give an i, that becomes the new scroll size 💖
• d — literally the same as ^D (control-D) 💅
• iz — acts like a space, except the i, if you type one, becomes the new window size 🧚
• is — skips i lines and then prints a screenful 🦋
• if — skips i screenfuls and then prints a screenful 🌈
• q or Q — quit 👋
• = — shows the current line number 🔢
• i/expr — searches for the i-th occurrence of the regular expression expr 🔍 You can use your erase and kill characters to edit the regex. Erasing back past the first column cancels the search, so no harm, no foul 🫶
• 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 swapped out for the previous shell command, and the sequence \! becomes a plain ! 💀
• :q or :Q — quit, same as q or Q 👑
• . — (dot) repeats the previous command 🔁

⚠️ bestie, these commands take effect immediately, so you don't need to hit a carriage return. Before you've typed the command character itself, you can hit the line kill character to cancel the number you were building. You can also hit the erase character to bring back the --More-- message 🙈

If output is streaming to the terminal, you can hit the quit key (normally control-\) at any time 🛑 zmore will stop sending output and show the usual --More-- prompt, and then you can type any of the commands above like normal. Real talk though, some output gets lost when you do this, because any characters still waiting in the terminal's output queue get flushed when the quit signal hits 😭

zmore puts the terminal into noecho mode so the output can keep flowing nicely 🌊 That means what you type won't show up on your screen, except for the / and ! commands 💜

If standard output is not a teletype, zmore acts just like zcat 🍓 The one difference is that if you've got more than one file, a header gets printed before each file ✨

📁 FILES 📁

• /etc/termcap — the terminal data base 🗂️

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

more(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zgrep(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzexe(1) 🫶

Okay bestie, that's the whole ZMORE(1) page, served from the General Commands Manual 💅✨ Go read something compressed and make it giving 🦋💖