svn commit: r225251 - user/gabor/grep/trunk

Ben Kaduk minimarmot at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 23:22:03 UTC 2011


On 8/29/11, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: gabor
> Date: Mon Aug 29 20:36:21 2011
> New Revision: 225251
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225251
>
> Log:
>   - Add support for xz[ef]?grep (1) and lz[ef]?grep.  The former handles
> xz(1)
>     compressed files and the latter lzma(1) compressed files.  The -X and -M
>     command-line options can also be used respectively.
>

Is there a reason to not make just a single zgrep(1) binary that can
tell what compression algorithm is in use and choose it as
appropriate?  It seems like that would be more convenient from a
user's perspective.

-Ben Kaduk


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