Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:36:19 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/grep grep.c Message-ID: <20000531093619.A96286@orange> In-Reply-To: <82516.959760409@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from Sheldon Hearn on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:06:49AM %2B0200 References: <20000531105553.B42042@sunbay.com> <82516.959760409@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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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
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