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bug#69789: zcat, zgrep and other (g)zutils' names
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wrotycz |
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bug#69789: zcat, zgrep and other (g)zutils' names |
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Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:54:15 +0100 |
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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.
To make things worse, *nix Compress produces .Z files and that could be using
'z' as prefix for the names other its tools. It doesn't have ones
but that's the point - it would be logical to use zcat for a compress'
tool name, and 'gzcat' fo gzip cat tool. And the last and not least,
these zXXX names collide with zutils' names, which are more
'generic', in a sense that they serve as a tools for many compressors,
not only for gzip. So, for the reasons mentioned above and to avoid confusion
I propose to rename zcat, zgrep, etc., to gzcat, gzgrep, etc. Hope you
understand the request. Regards wrotycz
- bug#69789: zcat, zgrep and other (g)zutils' names,
wrotycz <=