Re: BSD grep fixes

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:48:29 +0200
Gabor Kovesdan <gabor_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
> b. f. <bf1783_at_gmail.com> writes:
> > I don't think that the current behavior of bsdgrep is necessarily bad
> > -- in fact it seems to me to be simple and intuitive: nothing is
> > excluded or included implicitly, and (I think) the last match wins,
> > unlike in gnu grep.
> Ok, thanks, then I'll just document it.

Uh, no.  GNU grep's behavior is consistent with just about everything
else that has --include / --exclude options, e.g. tar and rsync.  Please
change BSD grep's behavior to match GNU grep's.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Wed Jul 28 2010 - 13:48:31 UTC

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