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

[Yuri Pankov]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:16:50PM +0200, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> * Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> [2011-05-07 21:27]:
> > Useful as well as, not instead of.  Needlessly differing from every
> > system out there is not a feature.
> 
> Well by that argument you could import pretty much any GNU
> "feature". In this case bsdgrep would needlessly duplicate
> GNU grep available from SFW which is e.g. on OI or SX11 the
> default grep anyway.
> Stuff like recursing filesystem trees and decompressing files
> also go against the "one tool for one job" and KISS philosophy,
> are non-standard and will probably never be standardized. Why not
> keep Illumos modern but minimal?

I do care to answer:
I never thought being minimal means being incompatible, Rich's answer
does it very well.. I wonder what you have to offer to the system other
than a new shed color?


Yuri