Re: zgrep -<NUM> doesn't work if <NUM> is two digits or greater

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

eww. I just looked at the code. I don't blame you. :)


On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 08/06/2012 04:26 PM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > So I think the answer is already there: *none *of the options are gzip
> > options, *all *of the options are grep options.
> >
> > Is the bug that zgrep is using the same parsing code as gzip, then?
>
> No, the bug is that while 'gzip' and 'grep' are C programs, 'zgrep' is a
> shell script, and the option parsing within that shell script has not
> yet been tweaked to correctly parse options in the same way that 'grep'
> would.  You have found a valid bug, and hopefully someone will take the
> time to revisit the shell script parser in zgrep (I unfortunately
> couldn't unravel it in the 2 minutes that I spent on the problem, and
> currently have more pressing matters competing for my attention, so
> hopefully someone else can step in and help).
>
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