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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:14:03 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xzgrep: incomplete results on larger files
Message-ID:  <1412000043.1250852.172976197.0B46058D@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2014, at 15:56, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> I observed the following behavior on 10.1-BETA1 r271683M (amd64):
> 
> xzgrep doesn't search the complete file:
> $ seq 10000 | xz > seq.xz
> $ xzgrep -c . seq.xz
> 6775
> 
> Using regular grep works as expected:
> $ xzcat seq.xz | grep -c .
> 10000
> 
> Processing seems to stop after 32KB (uncompressed).
>

Wow, this is bizarre... Compression with xz is getting more and more
popular. This may have bit me a few times and I didn't even know it!

I'll see what I can to do bring this to someone's attention.



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