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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2002 03:01:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: grep(1) manpage
Message-ID:  <20021203022951.A37197-100000@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021203061722.GM214@nathan.ruhr.de>
References:  <20021202220938.D36900-100000@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <20021203061722.GM214@nathan.ruhr.de>

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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Udo Erdelhoff wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:10:17PM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> >
> > 10874952 -r-xr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  - 53600 Dec  2 18:17 /usr/bin/grep
> > 10874952 -r-xr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  - 53600 Dec  2 18:17 /usr/bin/egrep
> > 10874952 -r-xr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  - 53600 Dec  2 18:17 /usr/bin/fgrep
> > 10874952 -r-xr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  - 53600 Dec  2 18:17 /usr/bin/zgrep
>                        ^

I spotted that shortly after my message was sent. Oops. :)

> Still looking for a good way of putting this information into the
> manual page.  And to account for the fact that zgrep.1 is actually
> installed as part of the gzip distriution, not as a part of the
> grep distribution.

Could I suggest something along the lines of:
"The grep variants prefixed with the letter 'z' perform like their plain
counterparts, but on gzip-compressed archives."
or
"The grep, egrep and fgrep commands have gzip-aware forms (zgrep, zegrep
and zfgrep respectively)."

And in a (currently non-existent) NOTES section:
"The zgrep.1 manual page is part of the gzip distribution."

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >

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