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bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?
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Eric Blake |
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bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice? |
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Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:55:36 -0600 |
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tag 15127 notabug
thanks
On 08/18/2013 08:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> Isn't it usually the case with conflicting options that the last
> one gets taken as the choice, with choices on the command line
> overriding choices in the environment?
>
> Grep doesn't seem to follow this convention.
>
> Is there a reason why grep doesn't or did it
> used to and now chooses to do nothing in the case of
> conflicting options? (eg. -P v. -E)
>
> I think the earlier behavior, especially in respect
> to cmdline value overriding the environment is more
> useful otherwise lines built up both by successive passes
> in make files and with those who specify defaults in GREP_OPTIONS,
> but expect cmd-line usage to override ENV...
>
> (coreutils 8.21)
>
> (or is grep not part of coreutils these days...hmmm...)
Grep is its own project (address@hidden, per 'grep --help' output).
As such, I'm closing this as not a coreutils bug.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Linda Walsh, 2013/08/18
- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?,
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- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Linda Walsh, 2013/08/19
- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Bob Proulx, 2013/08/19
- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Jim Meyering, 2013/08/24
- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Bob Proulx, 2013/08/24
- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Paul Eggert, 2013/08/24
- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Bob Proulx, 2013/08/25
- bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Paul Eggert, 2013/08/25
bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?, Linda Walsh, 2013/08/22