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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:

> > I don't know about less, but I've got an lzless and an lzgrep.  To me
> > the 50% space saving and the faster decompression is a big win, so I
> > can easily live with lzless and lzgrep.
>
> New tools... I don't like that. I prefer the "standard" having support
> for all methods, and me not caring. 

Alright Carlos, here you go - a patch for /usr/bin/zgrep to support
lzma:

http://jessen.ch/files/zgrep-plus-lzma.patch

> The real problem with lzma is that it is so slow compressing, but if
> you have many logs to keep, it may be worth the effort in your case.

For me the compression time is not a problem - it happens at night,
after logrotate, no-one is waiting for it to finish.  Like I said, lzma
is perfect when it comes archiving logs - they're large, mostly
write-only, but even for reading lzma is fast.

/Per

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Per Jessen, Zürich (15.8°C)

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