Freebsd 11 - /usr/bin missing [xl]zgrep/zegrep/zfgrep

[Kyle Evans]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:32 AM, George Mitchell <george+freebsd at m5p.com> wrote:
> It would not surprise me.  Knowing, to begin with, that GNU grep does
> not support uncompressing its input, I would *never* expect bzgrep
> (etc.) to link to GNU grep.                                -- George

This gets kind of sticky, though. =( For instance, I work with several
Debian-based systems that have a bzgrep(1) (and friends) installed to
fill in this gap of GNU grep. See:
http://www.unix.com/man-page/debian/1/bzegrep/

For most people like yourself, this is probably reasonable. However,
given that many GNU/Linux systems that are Debian or Debian-derived
actually have a shim like this I'm not sure it's a good idea to
produce a bzgrep that isn't similarly compatible with the system
grep(1).

- Kyle Evans