Package: xz-utils
Version: 5.2.4-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
On the battlefield of general-purpose mainstream compressors, there are
two entrants left: xz and zstd. The former wins for compression ratio,
the latter is good for medium and low compression levels, making stuff
like gzip or lzo redundant. In fact, I just noticed one of my use cases
gets sped up by ~10× by moving from gzip to zstd.
While zstd is not xz, out of all compressors shipping their own FOOgrep,
your xzgrep can handle most of the rest. Thus, instead of adding a yet
another set of binaries, I believe it would be nice to instead make
xzgrep more universal -- and perhaps, on a later day, replace all others
with symlinks.
Attached patch does the first part: adds zstd support.
Meow!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
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(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-rc6-00029-g30fa038072a9 (SMP w/64 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages xz-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-3
ii liblzma5 5.2.4-1+b1
xz-utils recommends no packages.
xz-utils suggests no packages.
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-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/bin/xzgrep (from xz-utils package)
>From 54140e8697b8414997bea9d4561fe4aa4f7a02f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 03:09:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Teach xzgrep about zstd.
---
src/scripts/xzgrep.1 | 3 +++
src/scripts/xzgrep.in | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/scripts/xzgrep.1 b/src/scripts/xzgrep.1
index 4bddbe2d..bc6c8104 100644
--- a/src/scripts/xzgrep.1
+++ b/src/scripts/xzgrep.1
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ which may be either uncompressed or compressed with
.BR lzma (1),
.BR gzip (1),
.BR bzip2 (1),
+.BR zstd (1),
or
.BR lzop (1).
All options specified are passed directly to
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ and fed to
When reading from standard input,
.BR gzip (1),
.BR bzip2 (1),
+.BR zstd (1),
and
.BR lzop (1)
compressed files are not supported.
@@ -95,4 +97,5 @@ or
.BR gzip (1),
.BR bzip2 (1),
.BR lzop (1),
+.BR zstd (1),
.BR zgrep (1)
diff --git a/src/scripts/xzgrep.in b/src/scripts/xzgrep.in
index a1fd19cf..cde8128f 100644
--- a/src/scripts/xzgrep.in
+++ b/src/scripts/xzgrep.in
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ for i; do
*[-.][zZ] | *_z | *[-.]gz | *.t[ag]z) uncompress="gzip -cdfq";;
*[-.]bz2 | *[-.]tbz | *.tbz2) uncompress="bzip2 -cdfq";;
*[-.]lzo | *[-.]tzo) uncompress="lzop -cdfq";;
+ *[-.]zst | *[-.]tzst) uncompress="zstd -cdfq";;
*) uncompress="$xz -cdfq";;
esac
# Fail if xz or grep (or sed) fails.
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2.28.0
