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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#19998: GREP_OPTIONS alternative? |
Date: | Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:33:15 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 |
Christian Kujau wrote:
Without GREP_OPTIONS, one has to 1) Write a script for each grep variant (fgrep, zgrep, egrep, etc.) 2) put $HOME/bin in $PATH
No, you don't need to write a script for each grep variant. You need to write a script only for 'grep'. That's because fgrep etc. invoke grep.
Even GNU/tar has TAR_OPTIONS
Yes, and on my list of things to do is to remove TAR_OPTIONS as well, for the same reasons that GREP_OPTIONS should be removed. (You have been warned. :-) It's too error-prone to have fundamental utilities' behavior depend on settings of random environment variables.
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