2009/10/22 Mark Baker <[email protected]>: >> It's unclear to me that pcregrep is a genuinely useful alternative, as >> as far as I can see it just tries to be like a standard grep but with >> PCRE regexs, hence I don't think this is squashing choice or insisting >> on One True Grep, but reducing confusion and effort. > > There is one useful feature that I don't think GNU grep has, which is > multiline mode.
Good point. > Even without that, I don't see that there is a good reason to drop it; > some people will be used to using it, and it's name is sufficiently > specific that it's not clogging up the namespace. It really isn't any > extra effort to maintain it. Good. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org Every act of belief is an act of unbelief (Carse) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
