"dinner time, hold on while i grep my desk for my car keys" - ken anon
On 31 March 2012 00:13, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, that
>> do
>> not provide /dev/null, right?
>
> grep(1) has a -s option. this is obviously useful becaus
> btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, that
> do
> not provide /dev/null, right?
grep(1) has a -s option. this is obviously useful because for
large files with early matches, most of the file need not be read.
- erik
On Thursday 29 of March 2012 16:09:49 stephano zanzin wrote:
> I loved the justification.
btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, that do
not provide /dev/null, right?
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dx
I loved the justification.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> "7th Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX" -- somewhere in gnudoc.
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> Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)
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