On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 06:49:15AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/10/2013 05:59 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 02/10/2013 07:41 AM, Rodrigo Campos wrote: > >> Is this use case valid enough to accept > >> the patch ? > > > > I'm sort of on the fence on this one. > > Comments from others welcome. > > You can emulate --keep with 'gzip -c ... > file.gz'; but a quick look at
Not really, you can if you want all the files to be in a single .gz (or if you need to compress just one file). I need to compress various files, but keep them in separate files. So, if you want to do that you need to iterate over all files you want to compress and do the "gzip -c" on each file. As I said, there are workarounds but they do not solve the real problem. > other compression utilities shows that it is a common option: > > $ xz --help | grep keep > -k, --keep keep (don't delete) input files > $ bzip2 --help 2>&1 | grep keep > -k --keep keep (don't delete) input files > > I'm in favor of the addition, but with the short option -k rather than -K. Cool. If the final decision is to commit it, let me know if I should re-send changing the short option to "-k" :) Thanks a lot, Rodrigo
