On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:03:19AM -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> I don't believe there *are* non-GNU greps. The Darwin man pages say
> that grep is a GNU tool and they reference how grep behaves under
> Windows and DOS. If there was a version that came from elsewhere, it
> must have been OS/2 grep or Be grep or something along those lines.
> From the man pages it does look like -d action works everywhere.
Where do you think the model for GNU grep came from? There were
implementations of grep before GNU and there are still grep
implementations apart from GNU.
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