I've run into a problem with zgrep -q. On some large bz2 compressed files it
returns false/error for a search that should have returned true. bzgrep and
"bzip2 -cd | grep -q" both work as expected.
Either "-q or -l" are required to show the problem. I suspect that grep is
terminating at the fir
SHORT ANSWER:
Because your results are so different from mine, I tried reproducing on a
personal machine. I tried
* the installed Debian stable gzip 1.9
* downloading the latest gzip 1.10 packaged source
* the git master head
With all three I reproduce your results. And the reason is that zgre
