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README And Other Program Documentation Files
Many software packages installed on your system have documentation files residing in the /usr/share/doc directory. Most of these are stored in plain text format and can
be viewed with less. Some of the files are in HTML format and can be viewed with a web browser. We may encounter some files ending with a “.gz” extension. This indicates that they have been compressed with the gzip compression program. The gzip package includes a special version of less called zless that will display the contents of gzip- compressed text files.