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[PATCH] Fix search of the look program.

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Message #25 received at 50852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: André A. Gomes <andremegafone <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 50852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:32:39 +0300

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

>> There's another aspect worth discussing.  The look program doesn't have
>> the -r flag (as of today), but ispell handles this case (look at
>> ispell-look-options).  It seems that look was published around 1979.
>> Perhaps it's time to deprecate this flag?
>
> Does that apply to all versions of look or just the GNU one?

I don't think there's a GNU one, since it's not part of the GNU
coreutils.

Here's what the man page say:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
The look utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.

The look command is part of the util-linux  package  and  is  available
       from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

From the first sentence I inferred that it appeared in 1979.

I had a look at the "look" program both on my GNU/Linux machine and on a
modern Mac laptop.  Both have the same "look", none have the "-r" flag.


-- 
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"

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