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Subject: Re: [9front] grep: always show path with '-n'
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Quoth Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
> the “traditional” way to achieve this is for g(1) to always pass
> /dev/null to grep to ensure there are always multiple files.
> 

That's certainly *an* option, but it
seems surprising that 1 vs n args are
treated differently for '-n', and I
think it makes sense to make it
consistent.