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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] grep: add --max-count command line option |
Date: | Mon, 16 May 2022 22:53:59 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.1 |
On 5/16/22 08:36, Junio C Hamano wrote:
"GNU grep has been doing so for the past 20 years and existing users of the command expects '-m 0' to behave that way" is a good enough reason, especially if '-m 0' is not the only possible way to say "unlimited".
Yes, I'm inclined in the same direction, now that I see more of the context. That is, GNU grep can continue what it's long been doing, with the only change being to the documentation so that we document -m-1 as meaning "unlimited". This minimizes possible disruption to existing scripts and satisfies the use case of having a way to turn off any previously-appearing -m option.
I installed the attached to the GNU grep master doc to do that. Hope this works for you.
0001-grep-document-m-better.patch
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