2013/5/16 Bartosz Gołaszewski <[email protected]>:
> 2013/5/15 Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>:
>> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Bartosz Gołaszewski
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I have added support for '-v' argument for gzip, gunzip, bzip2 and
>>> bunzip2. The change is only available if ENABLE_DESKTOP is set.
>>>
>>> Currently there's no verbose output if input data for these applets is
>>> fed to their stdin (i.e. cat file.txt | busybox gzip -v >
>>> file.txt.gz). I plan on adding this feature, as well as '-v' support
>>> for zcat an bzcat if this patch gets accepted.
>>
>> Can you describe why did you need to add this feature?
>
> My personal reason for wanting to have this included is a script I
> have to port to a busybox-based system. This script greps through a
> text file (hence the patch for bug 4520 I have submitted) and requires
> verbose output from gzip and bzip2 for statistical purposes i.e. to
> estimate the percentage of saved space.
>
> Nevertheless, it's also marked as TODO in archival/grep.c, so I
> thought it would be useful.
>
> Best Regards,
> Bartosz Gołaszewski

Hi Denys,

any chance of having this included?

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Best Regards,
Bartosz Gołaszewski
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