* [9fans] who would have guessed.
@ 2012-03-24 5:06 Bruce Ellis
2012-03-29 19:09 ` stephano zanzin
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From: Bruce Ellis @ 2012-03-24 5:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
"7th Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX" -- somewhere in gnudoc.
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* Re: [9fans] who would have guessed.
2012-03-24 5:06 [9fans] who would have guessed Bruce Ellis
@ 2012-03-29 19:09 ` stephano zanzin
2012-03-30 6:51 ` dexen deVries
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From: stephano zanzin @ 2012-03-29 19:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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I loved the justification.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> "7th Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX" -- somewhere in gnudoc.
>
> --
> Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)
>
>
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Sent from the outer space
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* Re: [9fans] who would have guessed.
2012-03-29 19:09 ` stephano zanzin
@ 2012-03-30 6:51 ` dexen deVries
2012-03-30 13:13 ` erik quanstrom
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From: dexen deVries @ 2012-03-30 6:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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
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* Re: [9fans] who would have guessed.
2012-03-30 6:51 ` dexen deVries
@ 2012-03-30 13:13 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-30 14:36 ` Bruce Ellis
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2012-03-30 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> 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
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* Re: [9fans] who would have guessed.
2012-03-30 13:13 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2012-03-30 14:36 ` Bruce Ellis
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From: Bruce Ellis @ 2012-03-30 14:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
"dinner time, hold on while i grep my desk for my car keys" - ken anon
On 31 March 2012 00:13, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> 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 because for
> large files with early matches, most of the file need not be read.
>
> - erik
>
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