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On 2024-06-14 23:22, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I would like to provide a Cygwin package for lesspipe, to automatically
> show archive contents or information about many file types, with
> enhanced or coloured output, without having to remember which filter
> commands are required to do so, as I have been using it for many years.
> 
> Description:
> Converts many file formats to text with coloured or enhanced display,
> so their contents or useful information about their contents can be shown.
> See the less(1) man page section INPUT PREPROCESSOR.
> The input filter is a bash script, which also works under zsh, and is
> easily extensible for new formats.
> Tab completion mechanisms for archive contents are provided for bash and zsh.
> Also works with git version control, mutt mail client, vim text editor.
> Can handle a wide variety of file formats, even files compressed and
> contained in a hierarchy of archives, enabling users to deeply inspect
> archives, and display the contents of files in archives without having
> to unpack them.
> Converters are checked for and used if available, including Cygwin packages:
> 	antiword		MS Word files
> 	binutils		text strings in binary files or archives
> 	brotli			compressed files or archives
> 	bsdtar			archive files
> 	bzip2			compressed files or archives
> 	cabextract		MS Cabinet files
> 	catdoc			MS Word files
> 	cpio			archive files
> 	djvulibre		DjVu files
> 	genisoimage		ISO files or images
> 	ghostscript		PS files
> 	groff			man pages or Unix source documents
> 	gzip			compressed files or archives
> 	hdf5			HDF v5 files
> 	id3v2			media files
> 	ImageMagick		image files
> 	jq			JSON data files
> 	libiconv		character set code page conversion
> 	lynx			HTML files
> 	lz4			compressed files or archives
> 	lzip			compressed files or archives
> 	mediainfo		media files
> 	netcdf			nc4 NetCDF files
> 	odt2txt			OpenDocument files
> 	openssl			Digital Security Certificates
> 	p7zip			archive files
> 	perl-Image-ExifTool	media files
> 	poppler			PDF files
> 	python39-pygments	program source code files
> 	rpm			RPM files
> 	source-highlight	program source code files
> 	texlive			TeX files
> 	unrtf			RTF files
> 	unzip			zip files
> 	util-linux		tabular data files
> 	w3m			HTML files
> 	wordview		MS Office files
> 	writerperfect		MS Office files
> 	wv			MS Word files
> 	xlsx2csv		MS Excel files
> 	xz			compressed files or archives
> 	zstd			compressed files or archives.
> To use these, select them for install in the Cygwin Setup program.
> 
> License:	GPL-2.0-or-later
> 
> It may be enabled by running interactively:
> 
> 	$ eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh`
> 
> or adding to a login profile the command:
> 
> 	eval $(/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh)
> 
> For more information see the project home pages:
> 
> 	https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html
> 
> 	https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
> 
> It is packaged by Arch, FreeBSD, Gentoo, MacPorts, and some minor distros:
> 
> 	https://repology.org/project/lesspipe/versions
> 
> Attached cygport and at:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/tree/lesspipe.cygport?id=43513a15e256c7203efc0ea18de8202dc16558dc
> 
> package job:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=8266&srcpkg=playground&user=Brian+Inglis
> 
> log at:
> 
> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/9457549487/job/26051697527
> 
> There are some test issues, some of which have been patched, some with test
> data date issues, and others with filter issues which need addressed upstream.
> 
> For recent changes, see below:
> 
> 2024-May-10	2.13
> 
> - added support for appimage and snap files
> - respect color scheme setting of vim in vimcolor, add listing of file types
> - improve xml (and html) display using the xmq binary
> - fix color detection (-R) again
> - support for cpio archives
> - fall back to 7z for supported formats
> 
> 2024-Mar-18	2.12
> 
> - improve completion for file names with special chars
> - better output when using xlscat
> - respect bat options from LESSCOLORIZER
> - propagate lesspipe changes to lesscomplete
> - don't use antiword any longer, outdated
> - use 7zip instead of now outdated p7zip if available
> - propagate file extension to newly created temporary files
> - use again csvlook for display of csv files if available
> - use csvtable for tabular display of csv files, needs Text::CSV from perl
> 
> 2023-Dec-13	2.11
> 
> - fix output of archive listings when no coloring is requested
> - column does not accept std input
> - fix html output with html2text
> - correct location of bash completion directory
> - respect csv file extension
> 
> 2023-Oct-05	2.10
> 
> - column does not accept -o option (BSD systems)
> - respect jsx and tsx file extension
> 
> 2023-Oct-03	2.09
> 
> - preferred display of csv files is through the program column
> - language recognition for bat improved
> - correctly recognize the -r or -R option when calling less
> - support for plain zlib files(used e.g. in backuppc, pdf)
> - fix jsx and tsx files often detected as html
> 
> 2023-Jun-26	2.08
> 
> - protect file names in tar from being used as options
> - support the device tree blob file format
> - many changes for colored output
> - fix template for creating a lesspipe rpm
> - fix vimcolor hang due to wrong vim CLI arguments
> - increase the file portion to read from STDIN to recognize its type
> - do not call mediainfo on STDIN input
> 
> 2023-Jan-10	2.07
> 
> - man page updates
> - support for displaying mail messages
> - set theme=ansi and style=plain in bat if not specified elsewhere
> - correct typo in less option, recognize osascript as applescript
> - better display of json files using jq
> - allow for changing the output style in bat/batcat
> 
> 2022-Aug-17	2.06
> 
> - remove perl storable (pst) files interpretation (security fix)
> - let bat recognize language, unless explicitly requested
> - call the bat colorizer with style=plain
> - many changes from ShellCheck for better syntax
> - run ShellCheck and test suite in GitHub Actions
> - better recognition of hdf and matlab files
> 
> 2022-Apr-26	2.05
> 
> - better colorize handling for bat and file names containing spaces
> - fix handling of pst (perl dump) files
> 
> 2022-Feb-28	2.04
> 
> - lessfilter can be in PATH or in homedir
> - csv format files get displayed in tabular form
> - do call ccze, mdcat only, if less accepts color seququences (-R)
> 
> 2022-Feb-22	2.03
> 
> - fix colorize handling for code2color and vimcolor
> - better argument parsing to detect -R option for less
> - use tr to convert into lower case, test string adjustments
> 
> 2022-Jan-19	2.02
> 
> - handle files names with a question mark in w3m, prefer elinks over w3m
> - add again perl storable support
> - add ~/.lessfilter support
> - better rpm handling, documentation enhancements
> - remove contrib directory, patches are partly implemented or obsolete
> 
> 2022-Jan-04	2.01
> 
> - experimental zsh and bash completion for archive contents
> - remove use of rpmunpack, dpkg
> - minor fixes in test suite and empty file handling
> 
> 2021-Dec-28	2.00
> 
> - code cleanup, minor fixes, support pygmentize with 256 color terminals
> 
> 2021-Dec-22	2.00-beta
> 
> - much enhanced testsuite, can now select tests based on its number etc.
> - added better bsdtar handling from the contributed bsdtar patch
> - added -layout option to pdftotext
> - changed code for extraction of less calling parameters
> - dont engage lesspipe in pipes (LESSPIPE=|-...), if called from man and perldoc
> - iconv handles most conversions from non foreign encodings
> - tarcolor enhanced and renamed to archive_color, archive listings colorizations
> 
> 2021-Dec-08	2.00-alpha
> 
> - complete rewrite with many fixes and enhancements.
> - incompatible change: groff converts to utf8, not 'latin1' and not 'nippon'
> - incompatible change: do not detect perl storable file format
> - incompatible change: LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR no longer honored
> - support for growing files and calling less from a filter (LESSOPEN=|-...)
> - new testsuite test.pl

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry