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 -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org