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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:29:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc's shortcomings (new subject line)
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> > grep -b.  but in general if the bio library had an option to output
> > line-wise, then the problem could be avoided.  otherwise, one would need to
> > mux the output.
>
>
> to quote you, erik,
> > pipes still preserve write boundaries, as does il
>
> so, hopefully, a dumb pipe to cat would do the job...? :^)
>
> grep-single-directory:VQ: $FILES_IN_THE_DIR
> 	grep $regex $prereq | cat

i think you still need grep -b, because otherwise grep uses
the bio library to buffer output, and bio doesn't respect lines.

- erik