Collin Funk wrote:
I'm tempted to rewrite these scripts as actual programs, otherwise I feel
that we will get endless reports about issues like this.
Dear Collin,
I did exactly that in 2009: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/zutils/
Zutils' programs are also more flexible than gzip's scripts because they
support several formats: bzip2, gzip, lzip, xz, and zstd. For example, with
Zutils' zdiff you can compare files in different formats:
zdiff -u foo.gz bar.lz
Currently the recommended method to avoid the name clash between gzip's
scripts and zutils is to rename the gzip scripts and man pages by
configuring gzip as follows:
./configure --program-transform-name='s/^z/gz/'
But I hope that we can someday coordinate to rename the scripts and
recommend the programs instead.
Best regards,
Antonio.
