Re: gzip and gunzip should have -k (--keep) option like bzip2 and bunzip2

[Shriramana Sharma]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Could you please explain why it is very difficult?
> Is there something that "gzip -k FILE" would
> do that "gzip <FILE >FILE.gz" does not already do?

Nothing, but I didn't even know that such a "trick" was possible. I am 
not as knowledgeable about these <> operators as you, and I suspect a 
lot of people will be there who have only as much knowledge as me, which 
is only so much as to try the app's manpage or -h help, and anything 
beyond that is out of my(our) range. It's for such people as me that 
bzip2 has the -k option, and it's for such people as me that I ask that 
gzip also has that option.

I do not think it would be very difficult for this to be included.

Shriramana Sharma.