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7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2020-06-01 · latest 2026-01-02

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  1. …that you can enable syntax highlighting/file rendering(like pdf, markdown) in less with lesspipe https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe . It is exteremely useful and improves readability a lot. What's nice is that this functionality is…
    comment by alkh · 2026-01-02 · in Assorted less(1) tips
  2. …isn't a pager but a preprocessor for less that does syntax highlighting among other things. https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
    comment by soraminazuki · 2025-10-08 · in Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting
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    Lesspipe.sh, a Preprocessor for Less
    story by netol · 2024-10-22 · 0 comments
  4. Perhaps you can use lesspipe with sed/awk? https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
    comment by manaskarekar · 2024-04-29 · in Pdf.tocgen
  5. less is useful for this if you have the lesspipe [0] preprocessor installed 0: https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
    comment by pimlottc · 2024-02-21 · in Useful Uses of cat
  6. …Brew etc holds newer versions - but this particular issue probably has to do with missing lesspipe: https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe#42-list-of-preprocessed-f...
    comment by e12e · 2023-07-20 · in Show HN: PDF Differ
  7. On some systems, less can automatically detect gzip compression via lesspipe: https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
    comment by rzzzt · 2020-06-01 · in Debian Handbook for Debian 10 Buster