On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:58 AM, R. Mattes <rm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:00:57 +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote >> 2011/6/23 S C Rigler <riglersc@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> > ... >> > Grep is fully capably capable of matching lines directly from the file >> > so you don't need anything piping the file to it. ... >> >> Now, what if the file is compressed ? >> >> There is >> bzless config.tar.bz2 | grep PREEMT* >> >> would that somehow work pipeless ? > > bzgrep? > The correct answer is neither since both grep or bzgrep will simply state that "Binary file matches". Why would anyone tar and then compress a single text file anyways? I apologize for the tangent, this is getting way OT. --Steve _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
