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

Gábor Kövesdán gabor at t-hosting.hu
Sat Dec 31 14:22:36 UTC 2011


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

Gabor



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