Re: grep patch

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Stepan Koltsov <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:41:49 +0300
> 
> > grep -h pattern | sed "s,^,$fn:,"
> 
> It works bad when I use grep with options such as -C

I don't see why.

> > grep -r is used often enough that it's reasonable to have as an
> > option, both for convenience and performance.
> 
> This options used often because grep has it.

No, you've got it backwards.  grep didn't have -r for many years, but
many ordinary users kept asking for it, so it got added to grep.  As
far as I know you are the only one who's ever asked for anything like
--fake-filename.