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Bug: OPTIONs are the same as for 'grep'.

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Chris Musinsky <cmusinsky <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:25:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Chris Musinsky <cmusinsky <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gzip <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug: OPTIONs are the same as for 'grep'.
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:33:11 -0600

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 > zgrep --help
Usage: /bin/zgrep [OPTION]... [-e] PATTERN [FILE]...
Look for instances of PATTERN in the input FILEs, using their
uncompressed contents if they are compressed.

OPTIONs are the same as for 'grep'.

Report bugs to <bug-gzip <at> gnu.org>.

> zgrep -r file
/bin/zgrep: -r: option not supported


 case $option in
  (-[drRzZ] | --di* | --exc* | --inc* | --rec* | --nu*)
    printf >&2 '%s: %s: option not supported\n' "$0" "$option"
    exit 2;;

Both the man page and the help for zgrep say it supports all options that
grep does, but it does not support recursion which would be very helpful.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Chris Musinsky <cmusinsky <at> gmail.com>, 25207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25207: Bug: OPTIONs are the same as for 'grep'.
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:39:16 -0800

On 12/15/2016 07:33 AM, Chris Musinsky wrote:
> Both the man page and the help for zgrep say it supports all options that
> grep does

That documentation bug was fixed in gzip 1.7, so I guess you are using 
an older version of gzip. I'll mark the bug as a wishlist item.
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:40:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio <at> gnu.org>
To: Chris Musinsky <cmusinsky <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25207: Bug: OPTIONs are the same as for 'grep'.
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:10:03 +0100

Chris Musinsky wrote:
> Both the man page and the help for zgrep say it supports all options that
> grep does, but it does not support recursion which would be very helpful.

Sorry for the shameless plug, but if you need a zgrep that supports 
recursion you may try the one in zutils:

http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html


Best regards,
Antonio.
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