Bug#471599: gzip: Please make zgrep -R work

2008-03-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 471599 +wontfix thanks On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 09:12 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I wonder if there is any reason that zgrep does not support > -R if I want to recursively grep directories with gzipped files. Because zgrep is a (relatively) simple wrapper around grep. To implement this we'd

Bug#471599: gzip: Please make zgrep -R work

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: gzip Version: 1.3.12-5 Severity: wishlist Hi, I tried $ zgrep -R test * /bin/zgrep: -R: option not supported and I wonder if there is any reason that zgrep does not support -R if I want to recursively grep directories with gzipped files. Kind regards Andreas. -- System In