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

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com> [2011-05-13 02:55]:
> 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?

Let me put it differently, you're about to add another, second
implementation of GNU grep whereas the original GNU grep is
already the default in distributions like OI so the original idea
of improving /usr/xpg4/bin/grep and putting it in /usr/bin makes
much more sense to me. And there's really no need to make snarky
comments, in the end you get to decide anyway since you're the
one implementing it.

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Guido Berhoerster