lesspipe.sh enhances the browser less. With this addon it is possible to view compressed (methods gzip, bzip2, zip, compress) and otherwise encoded files (support for tar, RPM, nroff, MS-Word and many more)

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  • Addon for the file browser less
  • Converts file contents of binary files into human readable text
  • Allows file inspection within archives
  • Works on many operating systems

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