Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 19:44:57 -0600 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: grep(1) documents bsdgrep, but GNU grep is installed as 'grep' Message-ID: <CACNAnaET7P1DX5Laev7X2f0tR%2BQHdbBgU4H9WC8UG5fegpxwqA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2719906.yzQzn1nXtE@photon.int.bluestop.org> References: <2719906.yzQzn1nXtE@photon.int.bluestop.org>
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On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:36 PM Rebecca Cran via freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> wrote: > > grep(1) documents the "--exclude-dir" option, but running "grep" complains > it's unknown. Also, 'rgrep' doesn't exist. > It turns out that the grep binary is GNU grep 2.5.1, while bsdgrep supports > the option. > > Is WITH_BSD_GREP supposed to be defaulted to on for 12.0 and newer, or was the > man page switched over too soon? > Yeah, I think we botched that -- maybe we'll call it optimism. =( https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/grep/Makefile?view=markup#l13 should read "MAN1= bsdgrep.1 zgrep.1" rather than grep.1 zgrep.1, I believe. (CC bapt@ for a second eye, since this was during zgrep stuff) Thanks, Kyle Evans
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