Jamboretz, Chris wrote:
First let me say thanks for providing this set of tools.
You are welcome. :-)
I've found some unsupported command line options and the first three are probably the biggest concern: --silent -P --perl-regexp --colour
I can easily implement these, but is --colour really needed? I generally dislike implementing spelling variations, but this one is specially confusing because GNU grep does accept an environment variable named GREP_COLORS but none named GREP_COLOURS.
others are -G --basic-regexp -U --binary -u --unix-byte-offsets
'-u, --unix-byte-offsets' is going to be removed next year from GNU grep: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/plain/src/grep.c case 'u': /* Obsolete option; it had no effect; FIXME: remove in 2023 */ error (0, 0, _("warning: --unix-byte-offsets (-u) is obsolete")); break;
-T --initial-tab -NUM
I don't see how -NUM can be implemented while respecting the syntax of command line arguments[1] where '-23' would mean '-C2 -C3', not '-C23'. I would recommend to use -C instead of the non-standard grep "option" -NUM.
[1] http://www.nongnu.org/arg-parser/manual/arg_parser_manual.html#Argument-syntax
--line-buffered --label=LABEL
No problem with these either. I'll release a new version of zutils with the new options ASAP (in a few days). Best regards, Antonio.
