On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 21:11:27 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Am 2006-04-21 11:06:54, schrieb Julien Cristau:
> > This bug looks a lot like 314342 and friends, which have been fixed a
> > long time ago:
> > gzip (1.3.5-11) unstable; urgency=low
> 
> OK, but I am using Sarge/Stable.  Having a broken zgrep makes many
> scripts unusable and breaks things.  It should be fixed in Stable too.
> 
It most probably won't be, because this is not a "critical bug [in the
gzip package] which can lead to data loss, data corruption, or an overly
broken system".

> > Line 103 of newer zgrep is not a substitution, so it seems like your
> > /bin/sh is not bash and your gzip package is old (the "Bad substitution"
> 
> bash:   Oh Yes, it is
> gzip:   Its the newest one I find in Stable ;-)
> 
> Sorry, but an a productionsserver with Apache, courier ssh,
> php5 and more plus 6900 Domains and over 24.000 VHosts I do
> not like to install UNSTABLE.
> 
> > string appears in dash, but not in bash or sed).
> 
> I use ONLY bash.
> 
> > Could you send the output of "ls -l /bin/sh" and "dpkg -l gzip" on a
> > machine where this problem occurs?
> 
> ----[ cmd 'ls -l /bin/bash' ]---------------------------------------
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 625228 2004-12-19 17:53 /bin/bash
> 
What I asked for was /bin/sh, not /bin/bash.
zgrep is a #!/bin/sh script, and I believe your /bin/sh is *not* bash.
Setting /bin/sh to point to bash would probably fix your problem with
zgrep.

Cheers,
Julien Cristau

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