[ale] It never ceases to amaze me...

[Jim Popovitch]

Have you tried examining .tar, .gz, .rpm, etc files with mc (Midnight
Commander)?  IMHO, less is cool, but mc is cooler.

-Jim P.

--- James Kinney <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> what cool stuff I find using linux.
> 
> I typed by accident "less file.tar.gz" and it displayed the directory
> structure of the tarball. I was stunned! So I did it again. I then
> tested
> it on a tar.bz2 with equally wonderfull results. Ditto on a .rpm and
> even
> a .zip file.
> 
> So I go digging further into the man pages for less and find a wealth
> of
> stuff that I didn't know was connected and setup. Wow!
> 
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