From ef467fd428a26f93d498ef6c3cfb6aa57f9f49c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bimba Shrestha Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 12:22:45 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] documenting non-supported grep options for zstdgrep --- programs/README.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/programs/README.md b/programs/README.md index 53706de72..63ce79fc1 100644 --- a/programs/README.md +++ b/programs/README.md @@ -272,6 +272,19 @@ It's used the same way as normal `grep`, for example : `zstdgrep pattern file.zst` `zstdgrep` is _not_ compatible with dictionary compression. +`zstdgrep` does not support the following grep options + +``` +--dereference-recursive (-R) + --directories (-d) + --exclude + --exclude-from + --exclude-dir + --include + --null (-Z), + --null-data (-z) + --recursive (-r) +``` To search into a file compressed with a dictionary, it's necessary to decompress it using `zstd` or `zstdcat`, -- 2.47.2