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

[Richard Lowe]

Useful as well as, not instead of.  Needlessly differing from every
system out there is not a feature.

-- Rich



On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 04:27, Guido Berhoerster
<guido+illumos.org at berhoerster.name> wrote:
> * Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> [2011-05-07 04:44]:
>> I am a little disappointed there is not a more general way to do
>> an arbitrary action on lots of files, whether compressed or not,
>> etc. etc. but that design mistake is already baked into enough
>> places so there's little hope of fixing it now.  So I'll just drop that
>
> Baked into what places? I'd say this is mostly a feature for
> convenient interactive usage. Why not add a simple tree walking
> command to Illumos later (e.g. a small convenience command
> similar to AT&T's tw)?
> "tw grep foo" is not much longer than "grep -r foo *" but much
> more clean and useful in general.
>
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
>
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