zmore

View a compressed file one screen at a time

$ zmore [file.gz]

$ zmore -[20] [file.gz]

$ zmore -d [file.gz]

$ zmore -s [file.gz]

$ zmore +/[pattern] [file.gz]

zmore [-dfls] [+linenum] [+/pattern] [file ...]

zmore is a pager for viewing compressed text files one screen at a time. It works with files compressed using gzip, compress, or pack, and also handles uncompressed files.
If a file doesn't exist, zmore automatically looks for versions with .gz, .z, or .Z extensions. The command combines decompression with the more pager, displaying --More-- at the bottom of each screenful.
Press space to advance one screen, Enter for one line, or q to quit. When output is not a terminal, zmore behaves like zcat, decompressing to stdout.

-_number_

Number of lines per screen

Display helpful messages instead of ringing bell on errors

Count logical lines rather than screen lines (long lines not folded)

Do not pause after form feed characters

Squeeze consecutive blank lines into one

Start at specified line number

Start two lines before first match of pattern

zmore cannot scroll backward through files; use zless for bi-directional scrolling. On SSDs, repeatedly viewing compressed files causes minimal wear, but extracting files does. Set the PAGER environment variable to use an alternative pager like less.

zmore was created as part of the gzip package in the early 1990s to provide convenient viewing of compressed files. It wraps the traditional more pager with on-the-fly decompression.

zless(1), zcat(1), more(1), gzip(1)