GNU bug report logs - #19998
GREP_OPTIONS alternative?

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Christian Kujau <lists <at> nerdbynature.de>

Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 07:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 19998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiago <at> debian.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 19998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19998: GREP_OPTIONS alternative?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:04:56 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hi,

El 11/03/15 a las 17:58, Paul Eggert escribió:
... 
> On the other hand, now that I've tested it, I see that when I type 'fgrep'
> Bash invokes it as '/bin/fgrep', which surprises me and which defeats the
> purpose of having 'fgrep' look at $0.  I installed the attached patch, which
> should fix that.
...

Then, please consider the attached patch, to clean src/Makefile.am up.

This shouldn't belong to this topic, but is there any reason to call
this wrapper with a shell other than sh (I've set it to /bin/sh in
Debian)

Cheers,

Santiago

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