Christian Kujau wrote:
Without GREP_OPTIONS, one has to
1) Write a script for each grep variant (fgrep, zgrep, egrep, etc.)
2) put $HOME/bin in $PATH
No, you don't need to write a script for each grep variant. You need to write a
script only for 'grep'. That's because fgrep etc. invoke grep.
Even GNU/tar has TAR_OPTIONS
Yes, and on my list of things to do is to remove TAR_OPTIONS as well, for the
same reasons that GREP_OPTIONS should be removed. (You have been warned. :-)
It's too error-prone to have fundamental utilities' behavior depend on settings
of random environment variables.
