Re: grep options - man page vs behaviour

2012-10-10 Thread Alexander Hall
On 10/11/12 06:31, Ted Unangst wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 18:44, F Bax wrote: The grep man page does not mention that -[num] behaves the same as -C[num]; or if it does, I didn't see it? Behavior supported for compatibility reasons isn't always documented if it's not the preferred way of do

Re: grep options - man page vs behaviour

2012-10-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 18:44, F Bax wrote: > The grep man page does not mention that -[num] behaves the same as -C[num]; > or if it does, I didn't see it? Behavior supported for compatibility reasons isn't always documented if it's not the preferred way of doing things.