Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

David Xu davidxu at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 19 08:42:28 UTC 2010


Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> Yes, I'm sorry for my slow reaction, I got a flu some time ago and that 
> prevented me from fixing the bugs earlier. I have several fixes in my 
> working copy, which are being discussed with my mentor. Probably, today 
> or tomorrow they will be committed.
> 
> Gabor
> 

When will the grep -H print file name for me ?  it is rather painful 
that the feature is missing. :-(
So I can not use it with find:

find . -exec grep -H {} world \;
I don't know which file contains the word world.

Regards,
David Xu



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