A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://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 22:01 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Add widely-implemented options to grep ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0007245) dwheeler (reporter) - 2025-08-31 22:01 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1941#c7245 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding -L, I proposed: -L List names of files that were processed but no lines were selected. Counter-proposal is: -L Only the names of files not containing selected lines are written to standard output. Pathnames are listed once per file searched. If the standard input is searched, the string "(standard input)" is written. I can confirm that both GNU and MacOS also produce "(standard input)" if - is the filename. Unfortunately, GNU and MacOS *do* list pathnames twice, if provided twice. I think that's the sort of thing that the standard can simply allow variance for. I can't imagine it's common to provide the same path multiple times, usually it's a glob or find result or some such. -L List names of files that were processed but no lines were selected. If standard input was processed its name will be considered "(standard input)". If the same filename was processed multiple times, and it is to be output, it's unspecified if its name will be output only once or once for each occurance. 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 2025-08-31 21:52 dwheeler Note Added: 0007244 2025-08-31 22:01 dwheeler Note Added: 0007245 ======================================================================
