bug#69789: zcat, zgrep and other (g)zutils' names

2024-03-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2024-03-13 15:54, wrotycz wrote: I propose to rename zcat, zgrep, etc., to gzcat, gzgrep, etc That's already doable when building gzip; you can use './configure --program-prefix'. Run './configure --help' for more, or see the file INSTALL.

bug#69789: zcat, zgrep and other (g)zutils' names

2024-03-13 Thread wrotycz
Hello, I noticed, not for the first time that zcat, zgrep and rest of the utils are ambiguously named. Neither gzip nor .gz does not begin with 'z'. All other compressors call their utils by the name of extension, like xzcat, lzcat, zstdgrep and so on. This is more logical and less confusing.