Lesspipe.sh

[lesspipe] is a input filter for the less pager. Recently I asked the author about supporting wget and he provided me this patch (which I slightly modified) to 1.6.0:

--- lesspipe.sh.in      2008-12-02 06:51:49.000000000 +1100
+++ ../lesspipe.sh.in   2008-12-24 09:50:51.954197800 +1100
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@
   if [[ "$type" = " empty" ]]; then
     # exit if file returns "empty" (e.g., with "less archive:nonexisting_file")
     exit 1
+  elif [[ "$type" = *cannot\ open* ]]; then
+    if [[ "$1" = "http" || "$1" = "https*" ]]; then
+        type=" URL"
+    else
+      exit 1
+    fi
   elif [[ "$type" = *XML* && "$name" = *html ]]; then
     type=" HTML document text"
   elif [[ "$type" != *lzip*compress* && ("$name" = *.lzma || "$name" = *.tlz) ]]; then
@@ -291,6 +297,10 @@
     elif [[ "$1" = *ISO\ 9660* ]]; then
       set -A cmd isoinfo "-i$2" "-x$file2"
 #endif
+#ifdef wget
+    elif [[ "$1" = *URL ]]; then
+      set -A cmd istemp wget "-O-" "${file1}:${file2}${rest1}"
+#endif
     fi
     if [[ "$cmd" != "" ]]; then
       filen="$file2"

This allows one to use less to view http resources.

lesspipe is licensed under the GPL.