From: Bruno Haible > This was already reported and fixed in coreutils, in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00111.html
I like my "2>&1" better than that "2>/dev/null", as mine would work if the thing being sought were actually there. (And it's shorter.) Discarding stderr acts as a gzip version test rather than a gzip feature test, but I'd settle for any significant improvement. SMS.
