From owner-cvs-all Wed May 31 7: 1:38 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008B837B58D; Wed, 31 May 2000 07:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.org) Received: from orange (Hamilton-ppp44877.sympatico.ca [206.172.76.70]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04025; Wed, 31 May 2000 10:07:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by orange (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA96369; Wed, 31 May 2000 09:36:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:36:19 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , "David O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/grep grep.c Message-ID: <20000531093619.A96286@orange> References: <20000531105553.B42042@sunbay.com> <82516.959760409@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <82516.959760409@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from Sheldon Hearn on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:06:49AM +0200 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:06:49AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > It's a pity this whole thing wasn't handled in a more traditional way: > document both -r and -R but mentioon that -R is provided for backward > compatibility and may disappear in future. I short-circuited all of that b/s tradition and politely asked the GNU maintainers to add -R to future versions of grep. Frankly, I'm quite happy with the result... :) Mental note for how to proceed in future... :) > Of course, tradition dictates that UNIX tools do only one job, and the Also true, but then we should lose -r altogether instead. -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message