Hi David,
On 1/24/22 12:32, David Laight wrote:
From: Walter Lozano
Sent: 24 January 2022 14:48
In order to improve compatibility with GNU grep improve support for long
options to busybox grep.
Why?
Does anyone ever actually type these long strings?
Looks like bloat to me.
Thank you for your feedback. As you mentioned it is very rare that
people type those long strings. However, scripts that try to be more
readable might use them.
In my specific use case, I try to run some Debian scripts, that make use
of some of those long options, of course not all of them. Since I was
already there I thought it would be nice to add them, since these kind
of overhead can be enabled only if needed.
From my understanding long options were enabled if
ENABLE_FEATURE_GREP_CONTEXT, which has some sense, since the color
would be a nice improvement in that case.
Following the idea that users who use ENABLE_FEATURE_GREP_CONTEXT with
color are looking for a full featured grep I thought that no additional
configuration options should we created to handle this.
I still think that this patch has value since other people might also be
looking for improved compatibility, and this is only enabled by config
options.
Regards,
Walter
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Walter Lozano
Collabora Ltd.
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