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bug#36612: Expand "no" options
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Gary Johnson |
Subject: |
bug#36612: Expand "no" options |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:32:27 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
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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