tag 15127 notabug thanks On 08/18/2013 08:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > Isn't it usually the case with conflicting options that the last > one gets taken as the choice, with choices on the command line > overriding choices in the environment? > > Grep doesn't seem to follow this convention. > > Is there a reason why grep doesn't or did it > used to and now chooses to do nothing in the case of > conflicting options? (eg. -P v. -E) > > I think the earlier behavior, especially in respect > to cmdline value overriding the environment is more > useful otherwise lines built up both by successive passes > in make files and with those who specify defaults in GREP_OPTIONS, > but expect cmd-line usage to override ENV... > > (coreutils 8.21) > > (or is grep not part of coreutils these days...hmmm...)
Grep is its own project ([email protected], per 'grep --help' output). As such, I'm closing this as not a coreutils bug. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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