From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 13:49: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.ham.muohio.edu (dragon.ham.muohio.edu [134.53.141.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5B31535F for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by dragon.ham.muohio.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02300; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:52:26 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: dragon.ham.muohio.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:52:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Howard X-Sender: howardjp@dragon.ham.muohio.edu To: Doug Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > First, I'm all for this idea, and applaud you and Jamie for taking > it on. I do have a few questions. Does POSIX say anything about grep, and > if so, is this version compliant? Also, I'd like to put in another vote > for full GNU grep feature compliance, since while having our own code is a > good thing, I am against introducing gratuitous differences since I have > enough of those to deal with already. I do not have a copy of POSIX, but I do have Unix98 which is a superset of POSIX. Right now, excluding bugs, it is Unix 98 and therefore POSIX compliant except for -e. -e should permit multiple patterns and it never occured to me that anyone would want to do this. When used with -F, multiple patterns are accepted. > I use grep heavily in day to day administration tasks so I look > forward to giving this a try. Cool, d/l it and post a bug-list :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message