Bug 106551 – inconsistent behaviour between zcat, zless, zmore

Bug 106551 - inconsistent behaviour between zcat, zless, zmore

Summary:	inconsistent behaviour between zcat, zless, zmore

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	gzip (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Ivana Varekova
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2003-10-08 07:15 EDT by Robert P. J. Day
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-01-27 07:31:48 EST
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Description Robert P. J. Day 2003-10-08 07:15:59 EDT

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Description of problem:
  the collection of file listing commands zcat, zless and zmore have
inconsistent behaviour.  if you have a gzipped file fred.gz, both
zcat and zless allow you to omit the suffix:

$ zcat fred
$ zless fred

  however, zmore *requires* the suffix, which is clearly non-intuitive.  i
haven't checked any of the other utilities (zgrep, etc.), but it might be nice
if they all worked consistently.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gzip-1.3.3-10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gzip fred (to generate fred.gz)
2. zcat fred  # works
3. zmore fred # fails
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bart Martens 2004-01-31 16:50:04 EST

If you want such a zmore, then replace zmore with this script:

#!/bin/sh
/bin/zcat "$@" | /bin/more

Comment 3 Ivana Varekova 2004-12-13 08:31:57 EST

Thank you for your notice. 
The problem was fixed.
Ivana Varekova

Comment 5 Ivana Varekova 2005-01-27 07:31:48 EST

Fixed in 1.3.3-15

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