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Fwd: 'less' bug report

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From: J B <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gzip <at> gnu.org
Cc: selinger <at> users.sf.net
Subject: Fwd: 'less' bug report
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:11:40 +0200

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Hi,
could you please fix the 'zless' bug described.

'less' ver. 451 log;
Use exit code of LESSOPEN script if LESSOPEN starts with "||".

Thanks,
jb


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From: Mark Nudelman <markn <at> greenwoodsoftware.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: 'less' bug report
To: J B <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com>


Hi jb,
This was fixed in less-451 with the introduction of the double pipe
syntax in LESSOPEN.  It requires your lessopen script to return the
appropriate exit code.

--Mark

On 9/8/2014 7:31 AM, J B wrote:
> Hi,
> this is a bug report for 'less' entry.
>
> $ touch empty.txt
> $ less empty.txt
> empty.txt (END)
> $ gzip empty.txt
> $ zless empty.txt.gz
> "empty.txt.gz" may be a binary file.  See it anyway?
>
> The last response should be as for 'less empty.txt'.
> According to Peter Selinger, author of ccrypt utilities:
> "The problem is that less, when using an input filter, regards an empty
> file
> as a condition indicating "filtering unsuccessful", and will just show
> the unfiltered file instead."
> This 'less' behavior causes a problem for other utilities as well.
>
> jb
>

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Message #8 received at 18427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: J B <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com>, 18427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: selinger <at> users.sf.net
Subject: Re: bug#18427: Fwd: 'less' bug report
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:15:11 -0700

This appears to be a duplicate of Bug#16951, which should mean that your 
test should work in the next gzip release but some related bugs remain.  
Please see:

http://bugs.gnu.org/16951

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