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bug#44362: Grep pipe doc needs to warn about --null
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#44362: Grep pipe doc needs to warn about --null |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Nov 2020 14:21:41 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> (info "(emacs) Grep Searching") says
>
> Your command need not simply run ‘grep’; you can use any shell
> command that produces output in the same format. For instance, you can
> chain ‘grep’ commands, like this:
>
> grep -nH -e foo *.el | grep bar | grep toto
>
> OK, but it also needs to mention:
>
> To have this currently work, be sure to remove the "--null" currently
> added to today's prompt,
>
> Run grep (like this): grep --color -nH --null -e
I don't think the manual can warn you about all invalid things a user
may decide to put in the command line. The --null is part of the
default command line, so I see your point, but I don't think mentioning
this stuff in the user manual would make much sense, and I'm closing
this bug report.
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