Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:07:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@yes.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907271406110.1387-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907271544430.2292-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jamie Howard wrote:
> 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
Good news, thanks for addressing this concern.
> except for -e. -e should permit multiple patterns and it never
> occured to me that anyone would want to do this.
Ah, well, if the world were limited to just what I could imagine,
how boring would that be? The more complete the feature set, the better
off we are for my money.
Doug
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