Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

[David Xu]

But I think BSD grep should be compatible with GNU grep,
because almost all scripts are written for GNU grep before
BSD grep appears, it is not practical to rewrite all existing
scripts. Anyway, thanks for your help.

David Xu

Stein Morten Sandbech wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> GNU grep is OK.  However standard BSD grep also work:
> 
> find . -exec grep -i world {} /dev/null \;
> 
> or even:
> 
> find . -exec grep -in world {} /dev/null \;
> 
> if you want linenumbers ...
> 
> hth
> 
> Stein Morten
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:29, freebsd-current-request at freebsd.org wrote:
> 
>> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:42:26 +0000
>> From: David Xu <davidxu at freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default
>> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at freebsd.org>
>> Cc: delphij at freebsd.org, Andrey Chernov <ache at nagual.pp.ru>,	Doug
>> 	Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>, core at freebsd.org, current at freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <4C6D5EF2.2040603 at freebsd.org>
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>>
>> 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
> 
>