On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Sheri wrote: > Was surprised (and thought it perhaps inappropriate) to be seeing files > with zero matches included when the "--count" option is specified. Ditto > even if the the "--files-with-matches" option is also included. Is that > working correctly? Seems at odds with the documentation.
Showing zero matches with --count is compatible with GNU grep. However with both -c and --files-with-matches, GNU grep just shows the files with matches - BUT NO COUNTS! I think that's an infelicity in GNU grep, but it does accord with the documentation, which says "scanning will stop at the first match" for --files-with-matches. Seems to me that with both options, only files with matches should be show, with counts. Noted for sorting out at some point. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
