From b4305c90a3be7e1a40b76545b8b761fdbda5c309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 11:56:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] lesspipe: Allow zstd to operate on a symlink

By default zstd refuses to operate on symlinks, so for example
`zless /var/crash/vmcore.last.zst` failed to view the uncompressed core
file.  Add -f to the zstd command line to allow operation on symlinks.

Reviewed by:	delphij
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55101
---
 usr.bin/less/lesspipe.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/usr.bin/less/lesspipe.sh b/usr.bin/less/lesspipe.sh
index 253914b8b3e..6fc6cc47163 100644
--- a/usr.bin/less/lesspipe.sh
+++ b/usr.bin/less/lesspipe.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ case "$1" in
 		exec lzma -d -c "$1"	2>/dev/null
 		;;
 	*.zst)
-		exec zstd -d -q -c "$1"	2>/dev/null
+		exec zstd -d -q -c -f "$1"	2>/dev/null
 		;;
 	*)	exec cat "$1"		2>/dev/null
 		;;