Package: gzip
Version: 1.6-5+b1
Followup-For: Bug #854878
Dear Maintainer,
I can confirm what the previous bug reporter said. It is definitely a
bug. You can test it like so:
$ touch binary-star
$ zgrep signal binary-star
/bin/zgrep: 75: /bin/zgrep: 1: binary-star option requires an argument
Looking at the man page for grep(1), it's clear that the
--binary-files option (and perhaps future --binary-* options) was what
the script was trying to emulate, but the programmer simply forgot the
"--" prefix.
Here is a patch that fixes the problem.
--- zgrep.orig 2016-03-14 13:41:45.000000000 -0700
+++ zgrep 2017-12-23 14:19:39.474801871 -0800
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
option=$(expr "X$option" : 'X\(-.[0-9]*\)');;
(--binary-*=* | --[lm]a*=* | --reg*=*)
;;
- (-[ABCDXdefm] | binary-* | --file | --[lm]a* | --reg*)
+ (-[ABCDXdefm] | --binary-* | --file | --[lm]a* | --reg*)
case ${1?"$option option requires an argument"} in
(*\'*)
optarg=" '"$(printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed "$escape");;
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gzip depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.24
ii install-info 6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b2
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
gzip recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gzip suggests:
ii less 481-2.1
-- no debconf information
