bug#37907: --no-ignore-case option

[arnold]

Hi Karl.

See the attached patch.  Less than 10 minutes' work. :-)

Grep guys - I'm pretty sure I've signed papwerwork for grep. Feel free
to incorporate this patch.

I chose '-g' since that letter was unused. It has no mnemonic value.

Thanks,

Arnold

Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:

> I suggest adding --no-ignore-case to clear the case-insensitivity -i
> search. I, and surely many others, have an alias or script that runs
> grep with -i by default, along with other options (since GREP_OPTIONS
> was killed). It would be highly convenient to be able to add
> --no-ignore-case on the fly to the rare-in-my-experience invocations
> where case sensitivity is desired.
>
> (Also, just in principle, it seems like any boolean option should be
> switchable by successive options. But I won't go that far.)
>
> Besides, since I'm not sending a patch (sorry), my expectation is that
> there will never be enough time to implement random minor suggestions
> like this, so it doesn't matter :).
>
> Thanks,
> Karl

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