Re: question

[zgrep is part of the gzip package, not of grep proper, so I'm replying to bug-gzip as well.] Thanks for that bug report. The zgrep usage message is wrong. I installed the following patch to the grep package to try to fix this. It would be better to add support for these options to zgrep; if so

gzip --rsyncable via pigz?

I thought of another way to add support for --rsyncable to GNU gzip. We could use pigz's implementation . pigz has many improvements over gzip. In particular, its --rsyncable implementation appears to be better than the Debian / Fedora implementation of gzip --rsyncable. A