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RE: zgrep(1) does not know bzip2 files?
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- To: "'letters at hotpop dot com'" <letters at hotpop dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:51:07 -0400
- Subject: RE: zgrep(1) does not know bzip2 files?
> From: letters@hotpop.com [mailto:letters@hotpop.com]
> Subject: zgrep(1) does not know bzip2 files?
>
> I noticed that zgrep utility only looks for gzipped files.
> I think it should also work over bz2 files.
>
> If I hack the file to add support for bzip, Where should I
> send the patch to get it into Cygwin distribution?
>
> Jari
zgrep is part of the gzip package.
bzgrep and friends are part of the bzip2 package.
Although it might be nice to create a
decompress-the-damn-thing-no-matter-how-its-compressed script,
it probably shouldn't be called zgrep.
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