bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?
tag 15127 notabug thanks On 08/18/2013 08:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Isn't it usually the case with conflicting options that the last one gets taken as the choice, with choices on the command line overriding choices in the environment? Grep doesn't seem to follow this convention. Is there a reason why grep doesn't or did it used to and now chooses to do nothing in the case of conflicting options? (eg. -P v. -E) I think the earlier behavior, especially in respect to cmdline value overriding the environment is more useful otherwise lines built up both by successive passes in make files and with those who specify defaults in GREP_OPTIONS, but expect cmd-line usage to override ENV... (coreutils 8.21) (or is grep not part of coreutils these days...hmmm...) Grep is its own project (bug-g...@gnu.org, per 'grep --help' output). As such, I'm closing this as not a coreutils bug. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?
Eric Blake wrote: Grep is its own project (bug-g...@gnu.org, per 'grep --help' output). As such, I'm closing this as not a coreutils bug. --- I see... Sorry about that.. It's hard to think of some things that are their own separate projects as not being coreutils as they were a core part of any unix system... (that isn't meant to say anything about where they should be located, just that the name of coreutils tends to be a bit all encompassing of a few side projects... Sigh.
bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?
Eric Blake wrote: Grep is its own project (bug-g...@gnu.org, per 'grep --help' output). As such, I'm closing this as not a coreutils bug. And worse grep isn't using this bug tracker. If it were then we could simply reassign the bug to the right package. Bummer. For people wondering what projects are served by this bug tracker here is the top level page listing them. Only eight projects at this time. http://debbugs.gnu.org/Packages.html Bob
