CVSROOT: /webcvs/grep Module name: grep Changes by: Jim Meyering <meyering> 18/12/30 01:24:22
Index: html_node/General-Output-Control.html =================================================================== RCS file: /webcvs/grep/grep/manual/html_node/General-Output-Control.html,v retrieving revision 1.28 retrieving revision 1.29 diff -u -b -r1.28 -r1.29 --- html_node/General-Output-Control.html 10 Feb 2017 04:43:38 -0000 1.28 +++ html_node/General-Output-Control.html 30 Dec 2018 06:24:22 -0000 1.29 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html> <!-- This manual is for grep, a pattern matching engine. -Copyright (C) 1999-2002, 2005, 2008-2017 Free Software Foundation, +Copyright (C) 1999-2002, 2005, 2008-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @@ -11,16 +11,16 @@ Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> -<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.3, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> -<title>GNU Grep 3.0: General Output Control</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> +<title>General Output Control (GNU Grep 3.3)</title> -<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 3.0: General Output Control"> -<meta name="keywords" content="GNU Grep 3.0: General Output Control"> +<meta name="description" content="General Output Control (GNU Grep 3.3)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="General Output Control (GNU Grep 3.3)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Index.html#Index" rel="index" title="Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> @@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ <dd><a name="index-_002dm"></a> <a name="index-_002d_002dmax_002dcount"></a> <a name="index-max_002dcount"></a> -<p>Stop reading a file after <var>num</var> matching lines. +<p>Stop after the first <var>num</var> selected lines. If the input is standard input from a regular file, -and <var>num</var> matching lines are output, +and <var>num</var> selected lines are output, <code>grep</code> ensures that the standard input is positioned -just after the last matching line before exiting, +just after the last selected line before exiting, regardless of the presence of trailing context lines. This enables a calling process to resume a search. For example, the following shell script makes use of it: @@ -159,10 +159,8 @@ </pre></div> <a name="index-context-lines"></a> -<p>When <code>grep</code> stops after <var>num</var> matching lines, +<p>When <code>grep</code> stops after <var>num</var> selected lines, it outputs any trailing context lines. -Since context does not include matching lines, -<code>grep</code> will stop when it encounters another matching line. When the <samp>-c</samp> or <samp>--count</samp> option is also used, <code>grep</code> does not output a count greater than <var>num</var>. When the <samp>-v</samp> or <samp>--invert-match</samp> option is also used,
