Re: gzip and gunzip should have -k (--keep) option like bzip2 and bunzip2

2007-01-09 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Bob Proulx wrote: Hmm... Basic command line shell operation is not a trick. Input and output file redirection is a fundamental operation of the command line shell. Most users learn that '>' redirects the output of a command to the file very early in their use of it. Right. Now I have many g

Re: gzip and gunzip should have -k (--keep) option like bzip2 and bunzip2

2007-01-09 Thread Shriramana Sharma
All right so I tried implementing my wish myself, but it was complicated by the fact that the program previously used to_stdout both: 1. to set the output file to stdout and 2. to stop unlinking the input files. Now I had to separate the two functionalities and also remember to set keep_input_f