GNU bug report logs - #4982
rgrep can't deal with .gz files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:50:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 4982 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4982: rgrep can't deal with .gz files
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:33:42 +0200

> > I suggest creating a new command (say, `zrgrep') as a wrapper for `zgrep'
> > and with UI like `rgrep'.
>
> Clearly, it should be called `rzgrep' :-)

See in the zgrep script:

  grep='${GREP-grep}'
  version='z$grep (gzip) 1.3.12'

So according to the naming convention of zgrep, it prepends the "z" prefix
to any grep command name :-)

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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