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Wolfgang Friebel edited this page Feb 16, 2025 · 13 revisions

Welcome to the lesspipe wiki!

On the occasion of the 25 anniversary of lesspipe.sh using recursive filtering an article was written. It is available in german as well.

To read all file formats recognized by lesspipe as text

  • in the text editor Vim, have a look at this entry,
  • in the terminal e-mail client mutt, have a look at this entry, and
  • in git, have a look at this entry.

Note that in all entries, if you have set $LESSOPEN to LESSOPEN='| LESSQUIET=1 lesspipe.sh %s', then LESSQUIET=1 lesspipe.sh can be replaced by less.

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