Just actually slowed down and read the following on grep(1): > -h Prevents the name of the file containing the matching > line from being appended to that line. Used when > searching multiple files.
"appended" is incorrect; "prefixed" or if it is a word, "prepended" might be more appropriate, as the file name followed by a colon would otherwise precede the matching line, not follow it. As an aside, while I respect that some of the unprofessional remarks from man pages have been removed over time, I wish someone would collect them and create a "tradition(5)" (or (6) perhaps) man page. Some of them, like the line from tunefs(1m) "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish", were worth preserving in some sense.. I seem to recall some version 7 or PWB/Unix man pages that were even better, like gong(1) which described a (nonexistent) command to deal with obnoxious processes modelled on "The Gong Show", and one or two others along those lines. A pointer to some of the 1 April RFCs might also be in order. IMO, that stuff should properly be kept separate from more legitimate documentation, but at least that which is not obscene should be not only preserved but within those limits, continue to be promulgated, so that normal people can discover that programmers and geeks have a sense of humo[u]r too. :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org
