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

[Yuri Pankov]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:55:20AM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> 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?

And as I really care, well have to fix -E (or to import new regex library,
as proposed, -F doesn't work wuth multibyte - I doubt anyone checked -
the color is much more important)... We can improve it later, given the
number of consumers, otherwise "unix" guys will kill the idea... 


Yuri