bug#70511: Option to grep into compressed files

[Dennis Clarke]

On 4/23/24 11:21, Mary via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion. You're right, this would be better than zgrep
> > etc.

    What happened to the old UNIX concept of

        Do one thing.
        Do it well.
        Then stop.

    To grep a compressed stream of bits you just pass the decompressed
    bits along a pipe.

    Done.




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Dennis Clarke
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