CentOS - Oct 2007 - logrotation

Dear all Salam,

i have installed logrotation package in BSD, the script runs every night at
3:00 pm night and makes
filename.1.gz. but when i use less command to see this gz file it says "do
u
want to see binary file??"
through which utility i can see the contants of the file???

Regards,

Umair Shakil
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umair shakil wrote:
> Dear all Salam,
> 
> i have installed logrotation package in BSD, the script runs every night at
> 3:00 pm night and makes
> filename.1.gz. but when i use less command to see this gz file it says
"do u
> want to see binary file??"
> through which utility i can see the contants of the file???
If BSD works like Centos, you could use:

gunzip -c filename.1.gz|less

Mogens

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"umair shakil" <umairshakeel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
when i use less command to see this gz file it says "do u want to see
binary file??"
through which utility i can see the contants of the file???
<<

All right, I'll bite. You could use zcat. But if you really want to use
less to *automatically* unzip a .gz file, then you can create a less
preprocessor:

      Use vi to create /usr/local/bin/lesspipe.sh and type in the following
      text:

      #!/bin/bash
      case "$1" in
        *.Z)  uncompress -c $1 2>/dev/null
              ;;
        *.gz) gunzip -c $1 2>/dev/null
              ;;
      esac

      Make the lesspipe.sh file executable ('chmod +x
      /usr/local/bin/lesspipe.sh') and then create a LESSOPEN environment
      variable to make less use it:

      export LESSOPEN="|/usr/local/bin/lesspipe.sh %s"

      Test that this works, by cd'ing to /usr/doc/HOWTO, and if all is OK,
      add the export line to /etc//bashrc so that it takes permanent
      effect. Obviously, the lesspipe.sh script can be extended to do other
      things.

All this is basically in the less man page, of course.

Best,

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