From: Nicola Girardi <ng@0x80.stream>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] grep: always show path with '-n'
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:04:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C131726DBF8DD60049249F4E7C302856@0x80.stream> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7F801B6A7ACE8834CDC5DA9DB18BB1D6@eigenstate.org>
Quoth ori@eigenstate.org:
> 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.
I've always wondered about that behavior for '-n'. Does anyone know
the historical reason for omitting the file name when there's only one
file to search?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-04 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-02 23:01 ori
2022-02-03 5:14 ` unobe
2022-02-03 7:04 ` Steve Simon
2022-02-03 16:47 ` ori
2022-02-03 19:04 ` Nicola Girardi [this message]
2022-02-04 0:47 ` ori
2022-02-04 0:48 ` ori
2022-02-04 22:00 ` Nicola Girardi
2022-02-05 16:57 ` hiro
2022-02-05 17:06 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-02-05 18:00 ` hiro
2022-02-04 12:39 ` Alex Musolino
2022-02-05 4:58 ` 有澤 健治
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