Egge: New page: http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html lesspipe is a input filter for the less pager. Recently I asked the author about supporting '''wget''' and he provided me this p...

2008-12-23T22:58:22Z

New page: http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html lesspipe is a input filter for the less pager. Recently I asked the author about supporting '''wget''' and he provided me this p...

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[[http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html 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:

<pre>
--- 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"
</pre>

This allows one to use less to view http resources.

lesspipe is licensed under the GPL.

[[Category:Unix]]

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Egge: New page: http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html lesspipe is a input filter for the less pager. Recently I asked the author about supporting '''wget''' and he provided me this p...