On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 10:32:23PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> It could also simply be removed. Both gzip and bzip2 permit concatenating
> files. (In other words, remove for_each and make zcat and bz2cat regular
> filters.)
Very nice. I did not know that.
> The obvious loss is that it stops at the first corruption. For zcat,
> this doesn't seem like a problem: regular zcat does the same thing.
> ("zcat file1.gz file2.gz" stops if file1.gz is truncated, without opening
> file2.gz at all.)
I would not care much for corrupted files.
> Are there any other reasons for for_each'ing this?
None, I beleave.
--
Alexander.
