Official request: Please make GNU grep the default
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Mon Aug 23 12:20:17 UTC 2010
"b. f." <bf1783 at googlemail.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > "Does not seem to work properly" is not a very useful statement. The
> > least you could do is provide an example.
> I did provide an example, later in the same sentence that you quoted.
I forgot to answer this part. By example, I mean an actual grep command
line and sample input that demonstrates the problem, the smaller the
better:
% echo elisp lisp | grep -w lisp && echo good || echo bad
elisp lisp
good
% echo elisp lisp | grep -wq lisp && echo good || echo bad
bad
No idea what causes it, but a quick grep (hah!) for qflag turns up the
following horror:
/* Find out the correct return value according to the
results and the command line option. */
exit(c ? (notfound ? (qflag ? 0 : 2) : 0) : (notfound ? 2 : 1));
which shows that -q *does* affect the exit code, but my brain refuses to
try to understand that code.
DES
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