"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I suppose you have a real application where this is useful?
>> If so, please describe it -- motivation/justification helps ;-)
>
> Just a merge with a lot of source files. It's the same motivation as
> the nmerge patch. I've actually got another patch as well that I'll
> clean up and offer soon that allows a merge of > nmerge files to be
> divided among sub-processes whose output is then merged by the parent,
> which provides a performance benefit (if you've got the resources for
> it). I've got yet another patch that adds an option to open
> compressed files through a decompression program, so I don't have to
> set up fifos for a merge of gzipped files.
Sounds interesting.
I suppose it can work with an arbitrary decompressor?
Note this relatively new option:
--compress-program=PROG compress temporaries with PROG;
decompress them with PROG -d
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