RE: A UNIX Query..

["Chakrabarti, Suvendra (CTS)" <CSUVENDRA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

     Yup, you need to uncompress the files to grep patterns. But the
question
     was to minimise disk access. I don't think we have any tool for
uncompressing
     the file in memory, and searching for pattern.

     Isn't that a great idea ? Making a tool to do that doesn't seem
difficult. Any takers ...
     (I am going to give it a try this Saturday ... :-))

     Suvendra

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Manoj Srivastava [SMTP:srivasta@xxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 03, 1999 9:51 PM
> To:	linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: A UNIX Query..
> 
> Hi,
> >>"Nitin" == Nitin  <nitin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>  Nitin> man zgrep
>  Nitin> HTH
> 
>         I don't think this will do either. zgrep is merely a wrapper,
>  it uncompresses before applying the pattern. From what I remember,
>  there is no way, theoretically, to look for a match without
>  uncompressing the data first. 
> 
>         manoj
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