Subject: bug#70511: Option to grep into compressed files

From: Dennis Clarke <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:07:10 -0400

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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