man grep

[Wim Sturkenboom]

Hello,

not sure if you're the right people to report this to; if not, please
tell me where to report (if possible)

man grep mentions --line-buffering
however, running grep with this option gives an error 'unrecognized
option'
the correct option seems to be --line-buffered

Discovered this on a Slackware 12 installation

Hope this helps to improve the software or documentation


Off topic
the man pages state that egrep is the same as grep -e. I however can't
figure out how unless -e is the default behaviour of grep.
On the above slackware box, /usr/bin/egrep is a link to /bin/egrep which
in turn is a link to /bin/grep. Nowhere the -e option comes into play.
Is -e indeed the default behaviour or do I miss something?


Regards WimS






Wim Sturkenboom

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