Kyle Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, I see what you mean. I've no idea on the history here, but I > believe the idea is that if I invoke one of these other links (zgrep, > egrep, ...) I'm expecting it to be actually be grep(1) based purely on > the name, and I don't consider bsdgrep(1) to be installed for anything > but a courtesy. > > For grep(1) to be GNU grep while xzgrep to secretly be a link to BSD > grep would be quite surprising to me as a user/admin, especially since > there are very real output and argument differences between the two. > This argument can be furthered by imagining the awkwardness that would > come from a system where the fairly standard *grep links are a mix > between BSD grep and GNU grep.
Ahhh. Yes, that does make good sense, now you mention it. Maybe they should be installed as bsdxzgrep ... :-) The thing is, though, it *did* used to do this, and now it doesn't, which isn't very POLA, and the revision log makes no mention of it (it's an update to do with META mode) and I can't find any information about it. I'd have least expected /usr/src/UPDATING to mention when 6 utilities are effectively removed from /usr/bin! Hence why I was wondering if this change was actually intentional - at least now I know a good reason to do this (what you mentioned above) so cheers for that, and the fast responses.. Your first response came in so quickly, I first thought it was a bounce message! Cheers, Jamie P.S. Nice to see someone on this list still remembers mail quoting etiquette ;-) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
