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On 30/03/2010 16:15, Mark nesterovych wrote:
> Decided to write BSD licensed grep and provide it to FreeBSD project if
> success.
> But encountered with a problem, which I can resolve.
> I looked through the gnu, OpenBSD sources and posix requirements to this
> utility, and can't find a solution. 
> ...

If FreeBSD is your primary target platform, I'd suggest to do whatever
the currently present implementation of grep does.

Regards

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