On 2026-06-01 Paul Eggert wrote: > Conversely, using LC_ALL here (and changing numeric format) shouldn't > cause trouble either, as people don't parse that part of gzip output.
That is likely true. Getting the uncompressed size was the reason to parse the output of gzip -l, but nowadays even that isn't so important because it's not faster than "gzip -dc foo.gz | wc -c". Using LC_ALL sounds good to me. -- Lasse Collin
