CVSROOT: /webcvs/grep Module name: grep Changes by: Jim Meyering <meyering> 25/04/11 13:06:09
Index: html_node/Other-Options.html =================================================================== RCS file: /webcvs/grep/grep/manual/html_node/Other-Options.html,v retrieving revision 1.35 retrieving revision 1.36 diff -u -b -r1.35 -r1.36 --- html_node/Other-Options.html 13 May 2023 09:23:53 -0000 1.35 +++ html_node/Other-Options.html 11 Apr 2025 17:06:07 -0000 1.36 @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ <!DOCTYPE html> <html> -<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0dev, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.1.1, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for grep, a pattern matching engine. -Copyright © 1999-2002, 2005, 2008-2023 Free Software Foundation, +Copyright © 1999-2002, 2005, 2008-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ 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". --> -<title>Other Options (GNU Grep 3.11)</title> +<title>Other Options (GNU Grep 3.12)</title> -<meta name="description" content="Other Options (GNU Grep 3.11)"> -<meta name="keywords" content="Other Options (GNU Grep 3.11)"> +<meta name="description" content="Other Options (GNU Grep 3.12)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Other Options (GNU Grep 3.12)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> @@ -49,32 +49,29 @@ <h4 class="subsection" id="Other-Options-1"><span>2.1.7 Other Options<a class="copiable-link" href="#Other-Options-1"> ¶</a></span></h4> <dl class="table"> -<dt><samp class="option">--</samp></dt> -<dd><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002d_002d"></a> -<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-option-delimiter"></a> -<p>Delimit the option list. Later arguments, if any, are treated as -operands even if they begin with ‘<samp class="samp">-</samp>’. For example, ‘<samp class="samp">grep PAT -- --file1 file2</samp>’ searches for the pattern PAT in the files named <samp class="file">-file1</samp> -and <samp class="file">file2</samp>. +<dt><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-option-delimiter"></a> +<a id="index-_002d_002d"></a><span><samp class="option">--</samp><a class="copiable-link" href="#index-_002d_002d"> ¶</a></span></dt> +<dd><p>Delimit the option list. Any later argument is not treated as an +option even if it begins with ‘<samp class="samp">-</samp>’. For example, +‘<samp class="samp">grep -- -PAT -file1 file2</samp>’ searches for the pattern ‘<samp class="samp">-PAT</samp>’ +in the files named <samp class="file">-file1</samp> and <samp class="file">file2</samp>. </p> </dd> -<dt><samp class="option">--line-buffered</samp></dt> -<dd><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002d_002dline_002dbuffered"></a> -<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-line-buffering"></a> -<p>Use line buffering for standard output, regardless of output device. +<dt><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-line-buffering"></a> +<a id="index-_002d_002dline_002dbuffered"></a><span><samp class="option">--line-buffered</samp><a class="copiable-link" href="#index-_002d_002dline_002dbuffered"> ¶</a></span></dt> +<dd><p>Use line buffering for standard output, regardless of output device. By default, standard output is line buffered for interactive devices, and is fully buffered otherwise. With full buffering, the output buffer is flushed when full; with line buffering, the buffer is also flushed after every output line. The buffer size is system dependent. </p> </dd> -<dt><samp class="option">-U</samp></dt> -<dt><samp class="option">--binary</samp></dt> -<dd><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002dU"></a> -<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002d_002dbinary"></a> +<dt><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002d_002dbinary"></a> <a class="index-entry-id" id="index-MS_002dWindows-binary-I_002fO"></a> <a class="index-entry-id" id="index-binary-I_002fO"></a> -<p>On platforms that distinguish between text and binary I/O, +<a id="index-_002dU"></a><span><samp class="option">-U</samp><a class="copiable-link" href="#index-_002dU"> ¶</a></span></dt> +<dt><samp class="option">--binary</samp></dt> +<dd><p>On platforms that distinguish between text and binary I/O, use the latter when reading and writing files other than the user’s terminal, so that all input bytes are read and written as-is. This overrides the default behavior where <code class="command">grep</code> @@ -95,12 +92,11 @@ which do not distinguish text from binary I/O. </p> </dd> -<dt><samp class="option">-z</samp></dt> -<dt><samp class="option">--null-data</samp></dt> -<dd><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002dz"></a> -<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002d_002dnull_002ddata"></a> +<dt><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002d_002dnull_002ddata"></a> <a class="index-entry-id" id="index-zero_002dterminated-lines"></a> -<p>Treat input and output data as sequences of lines, each terminated by +<a id="index-_002dz"></a><span><samp class="option">-z</samp><a class="copiable-link" href="#index-_002dz"> ¶</a></span></dt> +<dt><samp class="option">--null-data</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Treat input and output data as sequences of lines, each terminated by a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of a newline. Like the <samp class="option">-Z</samp> or <samp class="option">--null</samp> option, this option can be used with commands like
