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

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu May 5 22:35:41 PDT 2011


On 05/ 5/11 10:17 PM, 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).

Much like what tar does already:
http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/tar/tar.c#693

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System




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