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

[Bartosz Gołaszewski]

2013/5/27 Bartosz Gołaszewski <bartekgola at gmail.com>:
> 2013/5/16 Bartosz Gołaszewski <bartekgola at gmail.com>:
>> 2013/5/15 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>:
>>> 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?
>>
>> My personal reason for wanting to have this included is a script I
>> have to port to a busybox-based system. This script greps through a
>> text file (hence the patch for bug 4520 I have submitted) and requires
>> verbose output from gzip and bzip2 for statistical purposes i.e. to
>> estimate the percentage of saved space.
>>
>> Nevertheless, it's also marked as TODO in archival/grep.c, so I
>> thought it would be useful.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Bartosz Gołaszewski
>
> Hi Denys,
>
> any chance of having this included?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Bartosz Gołaszewski

Ping.

Should I maybe split the patch in series and resend?

Best Regards,
Bartosz Golaszewski