On my old SUSE distro, less
would automatically decompress .gz files.
That came in very convenient when listing auto-compressed /var/log/mail*.gz
files.
The current version of SUSE now archives /var/log/mail
and others with xz.
I never wondered how less
automatically decompressed .gz files, but I probably should have (:
So: what do I need to do, so this "magically" will work:
less /var/log/mail-20130201.xz
I regard this as a Linux question, but in case it is SUSE specific, I'm running this version of SUSE:
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
VERSION = 12.2
CODENAME = Mantis