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Lasse Collin d76c752a6d Scripts: Ignore warnings from xz.
In practice this means making the scripts work when
the input files have an unsupported check type which
isn't a problem in practice unless support for
some check types has been disabled at build time.
2022-11-11 12:23:58 +02:00
Lasse Collin bad61b5997 Scripts: Use printf instead of echo in a few places.
It's a good habbit as echo has some portability corner cases
when the string contents can be anything.
2022-07-18 19:18:48 +03:00
Lasse Collin 96f5a28a46 xzless: Fix less(1) version detection when it contains a dot.
Sometimes the version number from "less -V" contains a dot,
sometimes not. xzless failed detect the version number when
it does contain a dot. This fixes it.

Thanks to nick87720z for reporting this. Apparently it had been
reported here <https://bugs.gentoo.org/489362> in 2013.
2021-06-04 18:52:48 +03:00
Lasse Collin 43ce4ea7c7 Scripts: Put /usr/xpg4/bin to the beginning of PATH on Solaris.
This adds a configure option --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX
which defaults to empty except on Solaris it is /usr/xpg4/bin
to make POSIX grep and others available. The Solaris case had
been documented in INSTALL with a manual fix but it's better
to do this automatically since it is needed on most Solaris
systems anyway.

Thanks to Daniel Richard G.
2019-09-24 23:02:40 +03:00
Lasse Collin f76f7516d6 xzless: Rename unused variables to silence static analysers.
In this particular case I don't see this affecting readability
of the code.

Thanks to Pavel Raiskup.
2018-07-27 18:10:44 +03:00
Lasse Collin 9e6dabcf22 Avoid unneeded use of awk in xzless.
Use "read" instead of "awk" in xzless to get the version
number of "less". The need for awk was introduced in
the commit db5c1817fa.

Thanks to Ariel P for the patch.
2013-03-05 19:14:50 +02:00
Jonathan Nieder db5c1817fa xzless: Make "less -V" parsing more robust
In v4.999.9beta~30 (xzless: Support compressed standard input,
2009-08-09), xzless learned to parse ‘less -V’ output to figure out
whether less is new enough to handle $LESSOPEN settings starting
with “|-”.  That worked well for a while, but the version string from
‘less’ versions 448 (June, 2012) is misparsed, producing a warning:

	$ xzless /tmp/test.xz; echo $?
	/usr/bin/xzless: line 49: test: 456 (GNU regular expressions): \
	integer expression expected
	0

More precisely, modern ‘less’ lists the regexp implementation along
with its version number, and xzless passes the entire version number
with attached parenthetical phrase as a number to "test $a -gt $b",
producing the above confusing message.

	$ less-444 -V | head -1
	less 444
	$ less -V | head -1
	less 456 (no regular expressions)

So relax the pattern matched --- instead of expecting "less <number>",
look for a line of the form "less <number>[ (extra parenthetical)]".
While at it, improve the behavior when no matching line is found ---
instead of producing a cryptic message, we can fall back on a LESSPIPE
setting that is supported by all versions of ‘less’.

The implementation uses "awk" for simplicity.  Hopefully that’s
portable enough.

Reported-by: Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2012-11-21 19:19:44 +02:00
Jonathan Nieder 1d314b81aa xzless: Support compressed standard input
It can be somewhat confusing that

	less < some_file.txt

works fine, whereas

	xzless < some_file.txt.xz

does not.  Since version 429, ‘less’ allows a filter specified in
the LESSOPEN environment variable to preprocess its input even if
it comes from standard input, if $LESSOPEN begins with ‘|-’.  So
set $LESSOPEN to take advantage of this feature.

Check less’s version at runtime so xzless can continue to work
with older versions.
2009-08-09 22:27:22 +03:00
Lasse Collin ef4cf1851d Added missing author notice to xzless.in. 2009-07-19 11:09:31 +03:00
Lasse Collin 96e4b257e1 Major update to the xzgrep and other scripts based on
the latest versions found from gzip CVS repository.

configure will try to find a POSIX shell to be used by
the scripts. This should ease portability on systems
which have pre-POSIX /bin/sh.

xzgrep and xzdiff support .xz, .lzma, .gz, and .bz2 files.
xzmore and xzless support only .xz and .lzma files.

The name of the xz executable used in these scripts is
now correct even if --program-transform-name has been used.
2009-07-05 22:25:17 +03:00