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bug#9226: 23.3; [rgrep]; (matches found) ?
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Dave Abrahams |
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bug#9226: 23.3; [rgrep]; (matches found) ? |
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Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:52:44 -0400 |
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on Wed Aug 10 2011, Juri Linkov <juri-AT-jurta.org> wrote:
> So to never lie to the users and determine reliably
> the status we could use the following logic:
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> If status is 0 and the output is not empty:
> Grep finished (matches found)
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> Otherwise:
> Grep exited with status %d
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> These changes completely remove the case of status 1 that displayed
> "finished with no matches found", and also remove the word "abnormally"
> from the message of remaining cases, because we can't reliably determine
> the case of "no matches found" by checking status 123 of a command line
> that contains "xargs".
Sounds like an improvement to me.
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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com