I have tried to use zless to read (.gz) files.
zless $1.txt.gz
However, when (.gz) file is empty, it shows a message
"$1.txt.gz" may be a binary file. See it anyway?
How to force zless to read an empty gz file without typing Y for many times.
or
Is that possible to return something like
$1 is empty
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Answer
zless
is just a wrapper around less
. You need to look at man less
:
-f or –force Forces non-regular files to be opened. (A non-regular file is a directory or a device special file.) Also suppresses the warning message when a binary file is opened. By default, less will refuse to open non-regular files. Note that some operating systems will not allow directories to be read, even if -f is set.
The answer is
zless -f "${1}.txt.gz"