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Date:      Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:34:28 +0200
From:      Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xzgrep: incomplete results on larger files
Message-ID:  <543110A4.7040505@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <1412000043.1250852.172976197.0B46058D@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References:  <541DE9FC.2090003@gmx.net> <1412000043.1250852.172976197.0B46058D@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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On 29.09.2014 16:14, Mark Felder wrote:
>
>
> 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.

Any progress on this issue?

Would have been nice if 10.1 included the patch and had a working 
xzgrep. But it's probably already a bit late for that.




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