svn commit: r229081 - stable/9/usr.bin/grep

[Doug Barton]

On 01/03/2012 06:29, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:06:24 am Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
>> On 2011.12.31. 15:00, Gleb Kurtsou wrote:
>>>>   	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/fgrep \
>>>>>    	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/zgrep \
>>>>>    	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/zegrep \
>>>>>  -	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/zfgrep \
>>>>>  -	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/xzgrep \
>>>>>  -	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/xzegrep \
>>>>>  -	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/xzfgrep \
>>>>>  -	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/lzgrep \
>>>>>  -	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/lzegrep \
>>>>>  -	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/lzfgrep
>>>>>  +	${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/zfgrep
>>> Is there a reason we need all this mess is the first place? 12 grep links 
> under
>>> /usr/bin. Why not to make zgrep handle all compression types. Tranparent
>>> compression handling in tar was a great success.
>>>
>> 1, xzgrep comes from archivers/xz so scripts may be using it
>> 2, the rest to follow the naming convention
>> 3, auto-detection is not always trivial
> 
> Presumably the auto-detection is more trivial than that in tar that handles 
> the combination of various archive formats and various compression formats.  I 
> would definitely prefer to have a single "smart" zgrep that DTRT.

I vaguely recall raising this same issue after the initial commit to
HEAD, but just in case, a big +1 from me.


Doug

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