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

[Joerg Schilling]

Kurt Lidl <kurt.lidl at cello.com> wrote:

> Forking off a copy of 'gzip -dc', and then having to copy all the compressed
> data through a pipe to gzip, and then having to copy all the uncompressed
> data back through the pipe to grep is slow.

Pipes have been slow 15 years ago.....

Jörg

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