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bug#38792: man grep
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#38792: man grep |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:45:35 -0800 |
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On 12/30/19 9:54 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Please consider making it
>
>
> grep -l -- 'main' *.c
>
> to raise awareness and try and teach people "the right way".
Interactively, I invariably use 'grep foo *.c' without the '--' and it works
just fine because the files under my control have names that do not start with
'-'. This is standard practice and simplifies the common-usage examples. So
although '--' should (and does) appear in examples to document a defensive
measure for scripts that must work even in nonstandard environments, '--'
needn't be used in examples everywhere that it could conceivably apply.
bug#38792: man grep, Stephane Chazelas, 2019/12/29