[bug-grep] Re: grep patch proposal (-p, --position new option)

[Martin Pool]

On 14 Dec 2004, Claudio Fontana <address@hidden> wrote:
> My proposal is to add a "-p, --position" option with
> the following description:
> 
> "Prefix each line of output with the position (line
> and column) within its input file of the first match
> in the line."
> 
> A simple context patch is attached, apply with
> patch -p1 < grep_position.patch

Thanks for writing a patch.

Perhaps (only perhaps) it should be orthogonal to the line-number
option, so that you would need -np to get both.  I don't know if that
is really worthwhile.

-- 
Martin

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