GNU grep's new features (Linux.com)
GNU grep's new features (Linux.com)
Posted Jun 1, 2006 20:53 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: GNU grep's new features (Linux.com) by elanthis
Parent article: GNU grep's new features (Linux.com)
--only-matching's code is 24 lines long. Bloat? Not hardly.
As for grep -P, it's implemented using PCRE, so no bloat at all.
(Of course there will never be a pgrep or `prep' (ugh) as suggested in the article: egrep and fgrep are *already* obsolete, with grep -E and grep -F their preferred forms. Introducing more obsoleteness on top seems... peculiar.)
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