On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:51 AM Robert Bruntz <robert.bru...@cnu.edu> wrote: > I would like to recommend a minor tweak to the man page for GNU grep. > (The version I'm looking at is 2.20, but I doubt that matters.) > I would recommend changing the description of the -l and -L options from > this: > The scanning will stop on the first match. > to something like this: > The scanning of a file will stop on the first match. > The reason for this is that the first version is ambiguous, in that it > could be read as the grep command itself will stop at the first match, thus > printing only the name of the first file that matches (-l) or doesn't match > (-L), rather than the scanning of each file will stop on the first match > and start again on the next file.
Thanks for the report. That has highlighted the fact that the sentence in question doesn't even make sense for -L, so I've deleted it. Note that for the -l option, this was documented properly in grep.texi (the primary documentation -- you can read via "info grep"), but I've tweaked the wording there slightly and propagated that wording to the man page. I'll push the attached later today.
0001-doc-man-fix-L-description-and-improve-l-s.patch
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