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.
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.
It's probably historical - for instance, zgrep has only very recently been amended to support the LZMA compression format, but as this has been in use for some years, xzgrep or lzgrep were written. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org