Thanks, I installed the attached patch and am marking this as done.
>From 6ff80bfd55f6308be56014a3b4f00400d8a35023 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:02:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] gzip: adjust -v output when -k is also specified
Problem reported by Eric Benoit in: http://bugs.gnu.org/16401 * gzip.c (treat_file): When keeping a file, don't say it's replaced. * NEWS: Document this. * tests/keep: Test this. --- NEWS | 3 +++ gzip.c | 6 +++--- tests/keep | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3965dd3..643987c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ GNU gzip NEWS -*- outline -*- on some platforms when compiled with optimization. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.6] + gzip -k -v no longer reports that files are replaced. + [bug present since the beginning] + zgrep no longer malfunctions with a multi-digit context option like -15. Now, it passes that option to grep (equivalent to -C15) just as it does for single-digit options. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.12] diff --git a/gzip.c b/gzip.c index 713a1c7..1d46cba 100644 --- a/gzip.c +++ b/gzip.c @@ -898,9 +898,9 @@ local void treat_file(iname) } else { display_ratio(bytes_in-(bytes_out-header_bytes), bytes_in, stderr); } - if (!test && !to_stdout) { - fprintf(stderr, " -- replaced with %s", ofname); - } + if (!test && !to_stdout) + fprintf(stderr, " -- %s %s", keep ? "created" : "replaced with", + ofname); fprintf(stderr, "\n"); } } diff --git a/tests/keep b/tests/keep index ea6f667..e2ac5fa 100755 --- a/tests/keep +++ b/tests/keep @@ -41,4 +41,11 @@ for k in --keep ''; do rm -f in.gz || fail=1 done +cp orig in || framework_failure_ +log=$(gzip -kv in 2>&1) || fail=1 +case $log in + *'created in.gz'*) ;; + *) fail=1;; +esac + Exit $fail -- 1.9.3
