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

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun May 8 09:27:13 PDT 2011


On 05/ 8/11 08:30 AM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> So grep "-r" really has no benefit at all.

I've mostly switched to using ack (http://betterthangrep.com/) for
recursive searches anyway, as it knows to skip scm files and .o files
and the like - but it doesn't have auto-decompress yet (something I've
not needed to be honest).

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