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xz/src/scripts/xzmore.1
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Scripts: Mark the LZMA Utils script aliases as deprecated
The deprecated aliases are lzcmp, lzdiff, lzless, lzmore,
lzgrep, lzegrep, and lzfgrep. The commands that start with
the xz prefix have identical behavior, for example, both
lzgrep and xzgrep handle all supported file formats.

This doesn't affect lzma, unlzma, lzcat, lzmadec, or lzmainfo.
The last release of LZMA Utils was made in 2008, but the lzma
compatibility alias for the gzip-like tool is still in common use.
Deprecating it would cause unnecessary breakage.
2025-03-06 19:36:56 +02:00

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.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: 0BSD
.\"
.\" Authors: Andrew Dudman
.\" Lasse Collin
.\"
.\" (Note that this file is based on xzless.1 instead of gzip's zmore.1.)
.\"
.TH XZMORE 1 "2025-03-06" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
.SH NAME
xzmore, lzmore \- view xz or lzma compressed (text) files
.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xzmore
.RI [ file ...]
.br
.B lzmore
.RI [ file ...]
(DEPRECATED)
.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B xzmore
displays text from compressed files to a terminal using
.BR more (1).
Files supported by
.BR xz (1)
are decompressed;
other files are assumed to be in uncompressed form already.
If no
.I files
are given,
.B xzmore
reads from standard input.
See the
.BR more (1)
manual for the keyboard commands.
.PP
Note that scrolling backwards might not be possible
depending on the implementation of
.BR more (1).
This is because
.B xzmore
uses a pipe to pass the decompressed data to
.BR more (1).
.BR xzless (1)
uses
.BR less (1)
which provides more advanced features.
.PP
The command
.B lzmore
is provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.
It is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B PAGER
If
.B PAGER
is set,
its value is used as the pager instead of
.BR more (1).
.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR more (1),
.BR xz (1),
.BR xzless (1),
.BR zmore (1)