Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!rubmez!frei
From: frei@rubmez.UUCP (Matthias Frei )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <136@rubmez.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 11:04:42 GMT
Organization: MEZ, RUB, Bochum, FRG
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Posted: Mon May 30 12:04:42 1988
In-Reply-To: your article <7882@alice.UUCP>

> 	Al Aho and I are designing a replacement for grep, egrep and fgrep.
> The question is what flags should it support and what kind of patterns
> should it handle? (Assume the existence of flags to make it compatible
> with grep, egrep and fgrep.)

Hi,
some applications need to divert a file in two parts.
One should contain all lines matching any patterns, the other
one all lines not matching any of the patterns.
So I want following flags:

	- d	divert the file
		"matches" to stdout
		"nomatches" to stderr
	-r	exchange stdout and stderr, if -d is given  

Will you post Your new grep to the net ? (I hope so)

Thanks in Advance for a nice new tool

	Matthias Frei

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