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

Garrett D'Amore garrett at nexenta.com
Thu May 5 22:22:34 PDT 2011


On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 01:17 -0400, Gordon Ross wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> > I have very mixed feelings about introducing these dependencies.  But
> > perhaps its time to consider bring these libraries into ON?
> >
> >        - Garrett
> >
> 
> Or it could just fork off a "gzip -dc" (or whatever) when it needs to
> decompress something.  I took a stab at that (diff attached).
> I did not use popen due to concerns about passing file names
> with nasty characters to the shell...
> 
> Gordon


I like this *much* better.

	- Garrett




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