Date: 07 Jul 1999 20:20:53 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <xzpaet8tj7e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Jamie Howard's message of "Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:14:36 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907052110250.13873-100000@uther.wam.umd.edu>
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Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> writes:
> Due to the number of fixes I have received over the past few days, I
> decided to put together a new release of grep. It was either this or
> watch _Titanic_ on Cinemax.
A clear-cut choice.
> I changed it so that even when called as grep or with -G, it treats the
> pattern as an extended regular expression. GNU grep behaves the same way.
Hmm, well, never mind standards I guess.
> Archie Cobbs dropped the hint needed to solve the problems with -x. Right
> now, I wrap the pattern with "^(" and ")$". I know GNU grep does this,
> but is this correct?
Yes. You can solve -w in a similar manner by using \< and \>.
> Now, as it stands, I beleive this implementation is identical to GNU grep,
*functionally* identical.
> Due to problems with the previous download site (it is down as I type
> this), I will place this file in two locations:
>
> ftp://dragon.ham.muohio.edu/pub/howardjp/grep-0.3.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.wam.umd.edu/pub/howardjp/grep-0.3.tar.gz
Mirror site: ftp://ftp.ofug.org/pub/grep/
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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