Robert Lawhead wrote:
The solaris box is running fully patched 11.1.
That's, odd, because on the Solaris 11.1 box I have access to, gzgrep is
version 1.5:
$ uname -srvmpi
SunOS 5.11 11.1 i86pc i386 i86pc
$ gzgrep --version | head -1
gzgrep (gzip) 1.5
Perhaps there's some patch set your sysadmins are not installing?
I can confirm that its present in RedHat/CentOS 6.2, and ubuntu precice1 which
is just a few months old.
I'm not surprised: those releases were originally made in 2012, and
predate gzip 1.5. They probably don't think this bug worth fixing.
I wouldn't install gzip 1.5 (released June 2012); like gzip 1.4, it has
known security holes (which I hope Solaris has patched). I'd install
gzip 1.6 (released June 2013). Please see:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
