Re: gzip: zgrep takes -R option, but not -r or --recursive

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> And I would greatly appreciate zgrep -r too.

It'd be nice to add it, but it's not trivial.  Did you know that gzip
has an -r option too?  what a mess this all is internally, alas.  I
entirely agree with Bob that the current design is poor....