Re: gzip: add "--keep" option to keep original files unchanged

[Eric Blake]

On 02/10/2013 05:59 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 02/10/2013 07:41 AM, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
>> Is this use case valid enough to accept
>> the patch ?
> 
> I'm sort of on the fence on this one.
> Comments from others welcome.

You can emulate --keep with 'gzip -c ... > file.gz'; but a quick look at
other compression utilities shows that it is a common option:

$ xz --help | grep keep
  -k, --keep          keep (don't delete) input files
$ bzip2 --help 2>&1 | grep keep
   -k --keep           keep (don't delete) input files

I'm in favor of the addition, but with the short option -k rather than -K.

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