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https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1941 
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Reported By:                dwheeler
Assigned To:                ajosey
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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:         
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Date Submitted:             2025-08-30 21:51 UTC
Last Modified:              2025-08-31 21:52 UTC
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Summary:                    Add widely-implemented options to grep
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 (0007244) dwheeler (reporter) - 2025-08-31 21:52
 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1941#c7244 
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I hate it when different implementations of the same utility have conflicting
meanings for the same option flag. If only there were a standard :-) :-).

Which BSD are you talking about?  I looked at FreeBSD:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?grep(1)
I also looked at MacOS, which BSD-ish-derived.

If we must, we can drop some flags of course. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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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                          
2025-08-31 21:52 dwheeler       Note Added: 0007244                          
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