A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1941 ====================================================================== Reported By: dwheeler Assigned To: ajosey ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 Issue ID: 1941 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Enhancement Request Severity: Objection Priority: normal Status: Under Review Name: David A. Wheeler Organization: User Reference: Section: grep Page Number: 1 Line Number: 1 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2025-08-30 21:51 UTC Last Modified: 2025-08-31 00:10 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Add widely-implemented options to grep ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0007243) mirabilos (reporter) - 2025-08-31 00:10 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1941#c7243 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, wait, I missed one note: The STANDARDS section of BSD grep says: Historic versions of the grep utility also supported the flags [-ruy]. This implementation supports those options; however, their use is strong- ly discouraged. So apparently it supports a -r but doesn’t even document what it does, this is how strong it’s been deprecated for decades. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2025-08-30 21:51 dwheeler New Issue 2025-08-30 21:51 dwheeler Status New => Under Review 2025-08-30 21:51 dwheeler Assigned To => ajosey 2025-08-30 21:56 dwheeler Note Added: 0007240 2025-08-30 21:59 dwheeler Note Added: 0007241 2025-08-31 00:07 mirabilos Note Added: 0007242 2025-08-31 00:10 mirabilos Note Added: 0007243 ======================================================================
