[9fans] who would have guessed.

[Bruce Ellis]

"7th Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX" -- somewhere in gnudoc.

[stephano zanzin]

I loved the justification.

Post by Bruce Ellis
"7th Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX" -- somewhere in gnudoc.
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[dexen deVries]

Post by stephano zanzin
I loved the justification.

btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, that do
not provide /dev/null, right?

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[erik quanstrom]

Post by dexen deVries
btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, that do
not provide /dev/null, right?

grep(1) has a -s option. this is obviously useful because for
large files with early matches, most of the file need not be read.

- erik

[Bruce Ellis]

"dinner time, hold on while i grep my desk for my car keys" - ken anon

Post by dexen deVries
btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, that do
not provide /dev/null, right?

grep(1) has a -s option.  this is obviously useful because for
large files with early matches, most of the file need not be read.
- erik