On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Doug wrote:
> First, I'm all for this idea, and applaud you and Jamie for taking
> it on. I do have a few questions. Does POSIX say anything about grep, and
> if so, is this version compliant? Also, I'd like to put in another vote
> for full GNU grep feature compliance, since while having our own code is a
> good thing, I am against introducing gratuitous differences since I have
> enough of those to deal with already.
I do not have a copy of POSIX, but I do have Unix98 which is a superset of
POSIX. Right now, excluding bugs, it is Unix 98 and therefore POSIX
compliant except for -e. -e should permit multiple patterns and it never
occured to me that anyone would want to do this. When used with -F,
multiple patterns are accepted.
> I use grep heavily in day to day administration tasks so I look
> forward to giving this a try.
Cool, d/l it and post a bug-list :)
Jamie
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