Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/27/2014 10:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > using shell scripts will be bad news for any > > system that doesn't use a Unix shell > > So, we're talking about users who want the circa-1977 Unix interface for > 'grep' but who refuse to install a Unix-like shell anywhere on their > system? If there's need to support that, I suppose someone could write > and test an egrep.c that mimicks what the egrep shell script does. I'd > be open to such a change, though to be honest it sounds low-priority. > >
Consider MinGW and/or VMS and/or z/OS (OS/390). In some cases, "a Unix-like shell" isn't an option. Thanks, Arnold
