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Operating Systems Solaris How can I tell if a file is zipped or not? Post 302517499 by Peasant on Wednesday 27th of April 2011 02:43:26 AM
Old 04-27-2011
Yes, but with case statement you have wider control over $?, don't you agree ?

For instance, if you get return "2" from grep (unsupported switch in grep for instance)
you can handle it more transparent in case statement like :
Code:
2) printf "Unsupported, please check man grep $(grep --help)"

 

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ZGREP(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep -- print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files SYNOPSIS
zgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...] zegrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] zfgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] DESCRIPTION
zgrep runs grep(1) on files or stdin, if no files argument is given, after decompressing them with zcat(1). The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1). If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern argument. zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1). EXIT STATUS
In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0. SEE ALSO
egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), gzip(1), zcat(1) AUTHORS
Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> BSD
December 28, 2003 BSD
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