Was cleaning up some old files on a server this week and saw a rather large compressed file, there was not a lot of room so I wanted to see inside to see what it was, to see if I could keep it.
For this I used the less command, so it was :
less largefile.gz
Then I could see it was just a really old MySQL backup and I could delete it safely. So if you ever have a large file, don't want to uncompress it to view it then perhaps just use less.
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