On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Pascal Stumpf <pascal.stu...@cubes.de> wrote: > 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. > >
as it did for cat -v, right?
