[illumos-Developer] grep -Z etc? (decompress! was: webrev: 650 grep support for -q ...)

Gordon Ross gordon.w.ross at gmail.com
Thu May 5 19:21:09 PDT 2011


I have mixed feelings about seeing uncompress support in grep.
Perhaps that's useful, but it violates the Unix design principle of
making tools that each do one thing well (or set of related things)
and that can be easily combined to more complex thing.

Am I just being old fashioned?

Note that these options cause grep to drag in
libzlib and libbz2 for the decompress support.
One of which is not in core illumos...

Gordon



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