zgrep(1) does not know bzip2 files?

[Robinow, David]

> From: letters@hotpop.com [mailto:letters@hotpop.com]
> Subject: zgrep(1) does not know bzip2 files?
> 
>     I noticed that zgrep utility only looks for gzipped files.
>     I think it should also work over bz2 files.
> 
>     If I hack the file to add support for bzip, Where should I
>     send the patch to get it into Cygwin distribution?
> 
>     Jari
 zgrep is part of the gzip package.
 bzgrep and friends are part of the bzip2 package.
 Although it might be nice to create a
 decompress-the-damn-thing-no-matter-how-its-compressed script,
 it probably shouldn't be called zgrep.

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