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Package: grep;

Reported by: Steven Penny <svnpenn <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:13:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Steven Penny <svnpenn <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Expand "no" options
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:12:17 -0700 (PDT)

Grep does not have a way to disable "-i", "-n" or "-r" options. Those options
could look like this:

   -N, --no-line-number
   -O, --no-ignore-case
   -S, --no-recursive

The single letter choices are not ideal, but "-I" and "-R" were already taken.
If these options existed, you could write a function like this:

   grep_bravo() {
      grep -i -n -r "$@"
   }

then if you passed the new arguments like this:

   grep_bravo -N -O -S charlie delta.txt

your arguments would override the function arguments, as they come after.
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From: ruoshu gao <bei540296467 <at> yahoo.com>
To: "36612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <36612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: patch for "--no-line-number" and "--no-recursive" options
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:49:14 +0000 (UTC)

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So I tried to write a patch for "--no-line-number" and "--no-recursive" options, and I think they need no short options like -N/-R.
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[0001-add-no-line-number-and-no-recursive-option.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn <at> spocom.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36612: Expand "no" options
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:32:27 -0700

On 2019-07-11, Steven Penny wrote:
> Grep does not have a way to disable "-i", "-n" or "-r" options. Those options
> could look like this:
> 
>    -N, --no-line-number
>    -O, --no-ignore-case
>    -S, --no-recursive
> 
> The single letter choices are not ideal, but "-I" and "-R" were already taken.
> If these options existed, you could write a function like this:
> 
>    grep_bravo() {
>       grep -i -n -r "$@"
>    }
> 
> then if you passed the new arguments like this:
> 
>    grep_bravo -N -O -S charlie delta.txt
> 
> your arguments would override the function arguments, as they come after.

It seems just as easy to execute

    command grep charlie delta.txt

Regards,
Gary
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