Comments on: Open & View 10 Different File Types with Linux Less Command – The Ultimate Power of Less

By: K.Santhosh

K.Santhosh — Thu, 12 May 2011 08:43:03 +0000

Hi,

Nice article. I was using the “evince” command to view pdf files

# evince file.pdf

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By: Rick Stanley

Rick Stanley — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:35:30 +0000

On Debian, ‘lesspipe.sh’ is actually ‘lesspipe’. Check your system before attempting to use this command. Many shell script commands don’t use the ‘.sh’ extension.

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By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:48:45 +0000

@Jeroen, Thanks a lot for giving links to the lesspipe project. @Binny V A, Frank Daley, Mit , Have you validated whether lesspipe.sh is located in the direction specified by the LESSOPEN environment variable? If you don't have lesspipe, get it from the sourceforge.net project page given by Jeroen above. @Samuel Huckins, m I'm glad that you found this article helpful.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:41:09 +0000

lesspipe.sh isn’t available in every Linux distro.
The latest version can be downloaded here:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Text-Editing-Processing/Filters/lesspipe-sh-11349.shtml
or here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lesspipe/

By: Mit

Mit — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:46:48 +0000

As Binny & Frank quoted it doesn’t work on pdf/doc extensions

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:59:14 +0000

This is awesome. I use less to look through plaintext files all the time, but now it’s a much more useful tool!

Thanks!

By: m

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:16:18 +0000

i’m a rss subscriber. Am fairly new to linux, your post are quite valuable for me. thx, keep it coming (more freequent)