Stan Marsh <[email protected]> writes:
> Note: I note that 'grep' may not be part of coreutils, but it seems to
> me that it ought to be. Hard to believe it would have a set of lists
> just for the one program...
It isn't a part of coreutils, but many people think it is so you are not
alone. :)
Many GNU programs would probably not feel out of place if included in
coreutils, e.g., grep, sed, time. They are probably separate since they
were written by different people, even if the maintainers are mostly the
same nowadays.
> Anyway, hoping someone can answer my question even it is is technically
> off-topic.
>
> This is an issue both for the man page and for the "info" page.
>
> It says that =WHEN is optional, which it is, but it doesn't say what
> it defaults to. So, if you do --color, does that mean --color=never,
> always, or auto ?
Apologies for the lack of a link, but gnu.org is not responding at the
moment. In the info docs the following text is under '--color':
WHEN is ‘always’ to use colors, ‘never’ to not use colors, or ‘auto’
to use colors if standard output is associated with a terminal
device and the TERM environment variable’s value suggests that the
terminal supports colors. Plain --color is treated like
--color=auto; if no --color option is given, the default is
--color=never.
So '--color' is equivalent to '--color=auto'.
I'll have a look at adding some text to the output of 'grep --help' like
'ls --help' has for the same option. That will address the man page as
well.
Collin
