Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:06:40 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= <gabor@t-hosting.hu>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r229081 - stable/9/usr.bin/grep Message-ID: <4F0351C0.6050103@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201201030929.30656.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201112311312.pBVDCBja064475@svn.freebsd.org> <20111231140027.GA3487@reks> <4EFF16E0.7000206@t-hosting.hu> <201201030929.30656.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 01/03/2012 06:29, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:06:24 am Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
>> On 2011.12.31. 15:00, Gleb Kurtsou wrote:
>>>> ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/fgrep \
>>>>> ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/zgrep \
>>>>> ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/zegrep \
>>>>> - ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/zfgrep \
>>>>> - ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/xzgrep \
>>>>> - ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/xzegrep \
>>>>> - ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/xzfgrep \
>>>>> - ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/lzgrep \
>>>>> - ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/lzegrep \
>>>>> - ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/lzfgrep
>>>>> + ${BINDIR}/grep ${BINDIR}/zfgrep
>>> Is there a reason we need all this mess is the first place? 12 grep links
> under
>>> /usr/bin. Why not to make zgrep handle all compression types. Tranparent
>>> compression handling in tar was a great success.
>>>
>> 1, xzgrep comes from archivers/xz so scripts may be using it
>> 2, the rest to follow the naming convention
>> 3, auto-detection is not always trivial
>
> Presumably the auto-detection is more trivial than that in tar that handles
> the combination of various archive formats and various compression formats. I
> would definitely prefer to have a single "smart" zgrep that DTRT.
I vaguely recall raising this same issue after the initial commit to
HEAD, but just in case, a big +1 from me.
Doug
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