On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 04:13:34PM -0300, Iruatc Souza wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Pascal Stumpf <pascal.stu...@cubes.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:52:24PM -0300, Iruatc Souza wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:08 AM, patrick keshishian <sids...@boxsoft.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > my that's awkward.
> >> >
> >>
> >> if you can't combine unix tools, you should be looking at perl.
> >>
> >> iru
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I bet everyone here knows one can achieve the same results with awk,
> > perl, C, python, ruby, tcl, Haskell, java and goat sacrifices at
> > fullmoon. That doesn't mean any of those is the easiest or most
> > convenient tool for the job. Using a fully-blown programming language
> > just to output a filename and a line matching a regex is plain overkill.
> >
> >
>
> are you sure adding a flag is the right tool? maybe you should take a
> look at the reference i mentioned earlier.
>
> iru
>
>
grep(1) is the right tool. Adding a flag just makes it more usable for
specific tasks.
