[16627] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.15: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jan 20 17:56:49 1999
To: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:49:02 EST."
<199901202249.RAA29702@geskekelud.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:56:48 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> system-type is usg-unix-v, so it's using -q, but the default athena
> grep isn't GNU grep, it's, um, I don't know actually what it is.
It's the native grep.
On Solaris, /usr/xpg4/bin/grep supports -q, but /usr/bin/grep does
not. Yay Sun. IRIX, amusingly, documents a -q option in the grep man
page options listing but not in the man page summary, and the command
itself doesn't support -q. So neither of our OS vendors gets this
right.
It sounds like using -s is the lowest common denominator solution for
our environment. Unfortunately, on some of the more well-behaved
systems (Linux and NetBSD), -q might work better than -s. Someone
will have to look into this more.
