Re: [PATCH] grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Jan 3, 2010, 02:47 UTC
Message-ID: <fc339e4a1001021847hf1e1a7fq894de7908839ff77@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ljgfgbl0.fsf@catnip.gol.com>

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

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>> Then please at least make the second grep "grep ext-grep", droping "-e --"
>> from it.  We assume some implementation of external grep to lack "-e"
>> (e.g. Solaris).
>
> Isn't "-e" a "classic" grep option tho?

Hmm, a bit of googling, and it seems that while 7th Edition unix (as classic as I get) had -e, solaris indeed doesn't....

-miles

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