Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:23:09PM -0700, Andrey Falko wrote:

> It does get a little annoying when you want to use grep for all files in the
> directory, but nothing a little for loop cannot fix:
>
> for i in /path/to/dir/*; do echo $i; bzcat $i | grep yay; done

Sorry, not good enough.  The disk space taken by uncompressed docs is
hardly significant these days, and grep -r is too handy to have to
live with shell programming just because part of the disk is compressed.

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