On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 4:29pm -0300, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote: > The behaviour in the example below looks correct to me since passwd > contains lines that don't match your expression. It sounds like you > are proposing a new option to invert printing of file names. > > To date, the general policy (imposed by senior people on the list, > whatever that means) was not to introduce new functionality to grep that > can be accomplished using other standard *nix tools. >
Not exactly. Just extending the utilities of a flag (invert). The combination of the flags, whese this combination could result in an ambiguous output, are generally described in the OUTPUT section. There are descriptions of -l with -q, -n with -c, etc., for instance. -- Felipe Kellerman
