On 08/21/2013 10:54 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Ok, thank you for sharing, but doesn't '-E' mean egrep pattern syntax?
That even, '-E' fails, telling the user that they can only
use the syntax they are specifying seems abusive. That
other options in grep DO take the 'last' option, but the
syntax
join is inconsistent with other utils (like cut, for example) in how
it handles a specification of a switch value that has already been
set.
1) if a switch is set more than once with the same value, it
doesn't complain, but if the options differ, unlike utilities
like 'cut', the tool dies
Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 08/21/2013 10:44 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Historically, options specified on the command line take precedence
over options in an init/rc-file or in the ENV. Many utils
in a build process build up command lines in pieces -- with the
expectation that later values take
