Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 03:01:15 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: grep(1) manpage Message-ID: <20021203022951.A37197-100000@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <20021203061722.GM214@nathan.ruhr.de> References: <20021202220938.D36900-100000@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <20021203061722.GM214@nathan.ruhr.de>
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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:10:17PM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > > > 10874952 -r-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 53600 Dec 2 18:17 /usr/bin/grep > > 10874952 -r-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 53600 Dec 2 18:17 /usr/bin/egrep > > 10874952 -r-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 53600 Dec 2 18:17 /usr/bin/fgrep > > 10874952 -r-xr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 53600 Dec 2 18:17 /usr/bin/zgrep > ^ I spotted that shortly after my message was sent. Oops. :) > Still looking for a good way of putting this information into the > manual page. And to account for the fact that zgrep.1 is actually > installed as part of the gzip distriution, not as a part of the > grep distribution. Could I suggest something along the lines of: "The grep variants prefixed with the letter 'z' perform like their plain counterparts, but on gzip-compressed archives." or "The grep, egrep and fgrep commands have gzip-aware forms (zgrep, zegrep and zfgrep respectively)." And in a (currently non-existent) NOTES section: "The zgrep.1 manual page is part of the gzip distribution." Regards, > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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