GNU bug report logs - #63146
Document that -f takes "-" on Info and man page?

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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bug#63146; Package grep. (Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:26:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Acknowledgement sent to Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>:
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From: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Document that -f takes "-" on Info and man page?
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:25:08 +0200

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Currently the documentation for the -f flag in both man page and info
are not very clear about the possibility of passing "-" to read from stdin.

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Reply sent to Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sat, 29 Apr 2023 08:42:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Notification sent to Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>:
bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 29 Apr 2023 08:42:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 63146-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63146: Document that -f takes "-" on Info and man page?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:40:56 +0200

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 3:26 PM Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently the documentation for the -f flag in both man page and info
> are not very clear about the possibility of passing "-" to read from stdin.

Thanks for pointing that out.
I've addressed that with this just-pushed commit:

[grep-doc-f-FILE-stdin.diff (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 27 May 2023 11:24:08 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 21 days ago.

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