For everyone's critique, here are my changes (to grep 3.11):
diff -u doc/grep.in.1.orig doc/grep.in.1
--- doc/grep.in.1.orig 2024-04-28 18:04:37.494096472 -0400
+++ doc/grep.in.1 2024-04-28 18:24:15.187984393 -0400
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.de dT
.ds Dt \\$2
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-.dT Time-stamp: "2019-12-29"
+.dT
Dale wrote:
> If these weren't ad-hoc activities, I would construct a careful pipeline
> like
>
> grep -c -r pattern directory | sort -t: -k2,2r | head -n3
>
> but for ad-hoc use, it seems to me that it's sensible and convenient to
> make the combination -c -l do what it intuitively "ought"
On 4/25/24 13:10, Dale R. Worley wrote:
One further thing, I haven't written any updates to the manual page or
.texi. Does anyone have suggestions for a good way to do that?
If you have time, just edit those two files and include the edits as
part of your patch. If not, I can write that
Dennis Clarke via Bug reports for GNU grep writes:
> Perhaps a specific example would be helpful.
My most common case is something like
grep -c --files-with-match 'some fragment of a command' ~/temp/shell.10??
which is searching the log files of my old shell sessions to find the
most
Paul Eggert writes:
> On 4/23/24 11:32 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
>> However, it seems "natural" to me that "grep -c -l", that is, "grep
>> --count --files-with-matches", should give me this result.
>
> Yes, that sounds reasonable. Is your patch a trivial one (10 lines or
> less)? If so, please
On 4/23/24 11:32 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
However, it seems "natural" to me that "grep -c -l", that is, "grep
--count --files-with-matches", should give me this result.
Yes, that sounds reasonable. Is your patch a trivial one (10 lines or
less)? If so, please send it in. If not, please send
On 4/23/24 14:32, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> At least once a week, and often several times a day ...
Dear Sir :
This is a task I can certainly relate to. Dragging through massive
storage servers with find and grep is a terrible way to get things done.
> I want to search a tree of files to
At least once a week, and often several times a day, I want to search a
tree of files to list the files in a directory containing a pattern,
along with the *numbers* of patterns in the files. Usually this is
because I'm looking for a file that contains a number of instances of
the pattern, from
