bin/168839: zless cant show 0 Byte compressed files

Andy Kosela akosela at andykosela.com
Mon Dec 3 20:10:01 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR bin/168839; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc: meyser at xenet.de
Subject: Re: bin/168839: zless cant show 0 Byte compressed files
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:00:08 +0100

 It is a behavior of GNU less(1) which differs here from zmore(1) which
 uses gzip(1) and zcat/gzip(1) itself.  We do not support GNU less(1) but
 this feature is desirable IMHO and you can request this change to the
 upstream.
 
 --Andy


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