Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 03:04:35 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/35505: [PATCH] Feature enhancement for sed(1) Message-ID: <20020305030435.F3880@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20020305011227.E1276-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:24:19AM %2B1100 References: <200203031910.g23JA1u35963@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020305011227.E1276-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:24:19AM +1100 I heard the voice of
Bruce Evans, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> The functionality is already provided in a better way by the -E flag.
> I agree with the gnu standard which says:
>
> ! Please don't make the behavior of a utility depend on the name used to
> ! invoke it. It is useful sometimes to make a link to a utility with a
> ! different name, and that should not change what it does.
I find that especially humerous, given that GNU {e,f,z}grep was what
inspired me to write the patch in the first place...
I think it'd be useful, and it nicely matches grep (doubly nice since
grep and sed are the two main command-line-based apps that are based
around regexps) for a good touch of consistency. OTOH, if nobody else
likes it, I don't feel THAT strongly about it.
--
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