Re: grep potential bug in compression lib

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
        thank you for your bug report.

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:05:05PM +0100, Cyril Chaboisseau wrote:
> there might be a small bug in the zgrep (or grep -z) command :

> $ zgrep -n "" file.gz
> [...nothing happen]

This indeed is a bug in the zgrep script.
grep -z means zero-terminated input, at least for GNU grep, so it's not
relevant here.

A patch to zgrep script is attached to this mail.

The zgrep script is part of gzip package, I'll forward the patch to its
maintainers.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal

zgrep.patch
Description: Text document