From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:06:39 +1100 Message-ID: From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [9fans] who would have guessed. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6ec98a12-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "7th Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX" -- somewhere in gnudoc. -- Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE) From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: stephano zanzin Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:09:49 -0300 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8fb1f81afc655c04bc6678b9 Subject: Re: [9fans] who would have guessed. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 70772932-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --e89a8fb1f81afc655c04bc6678b9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I loved the justification. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > "7th Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX" -- somewhere in gnudoc. > > -- > Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE) > > -- Sent from the outer space --e89a8fb1f81afc655c04bc6678b9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.

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--e89a8fb1f81afc655c04bc6678b9-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:51:32 +0200 Message-ID: <1406623.xW7vMdtVSL@coil> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.3.0-l43; KDE/4.8.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [9fans] who would have guessed. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 70f0a546-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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? -- dx From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:13:27 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1406623.xW7vMdtVSL@coil> References: <1406623.xW7vMdtVSL@coil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] who would have guessed. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 720482b8-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1406623.xW7vMdtVSL@coil> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:36:03 +1100 Message-ID: From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] who would have guessed. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 726a4c88-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "dinner time, hold on while i grep my desk for my car keys" - ken anon On 31 March 2012 00:13, erik quanstrom wrote: >> btw., the POSIX -q option to grep is needed only on non-POSIX systems, t= hat do >> not provide /dev/null, right? > > grep(1) has a -s option. =C2=A0this is obviously useful because for > large files with early matches, most of the file need not be read. > > - erik > --=20 Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)