Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Tuesday, 2013-04-16 at 18:41 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hum! That one is new to me. So now we have to use zgrep sometimes, other xzgrep... what a complication :-(
And zometimes even bzgrep.
Argh! Why so many? What's the rationale? :-/
Well, different compression methods require different uncompression methods :-) The rationale for writing the next compression method is an improved compression ratio.
And also sometimes to escape from patents or other restrictions.
Not that. It is obvious that new compression methods are found and made available. Howver, zgrep is a script (I learned that today), so I don't understand why we need having new scripts named xzgrep or bzgrep, instead of adapting zgrep. All are scripts. This is a mess.
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