[PATCH] Support for '-v' argument for gzip and bzip2

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed May 15 10:51:17 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Bartosz Gołaszewski
<bartekgola at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have added support for '-v' argument for gzip, gunzip, bzip2 and
> bunzip2. The change is only available if ENABLE_DESKTOP is set.
>
> Currently there's no verbose output if input data for these applets is
> fed to their stdin (i.e. cat file.txt | busybox gzip -v >
> file.txt.gz). I plan on adding this feature, as well as '-v' support
> for zcat an bzcat if this patch gets accepted.

Can you describe why did you need to add this feature?


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