[bug-grep] Re: grep patch proposal (-p, --position new option)

[Claudio Fontana]

> Perhaps (only perhaps) it should be orthogonal to
> the line-number
> option, so that you would need -np to get both.

I see a problem with that: if only -p is specified,
the output format is indistinguishable from -n, and
confusion between lines and columns can rise.

In the patch I submitted I take this approach:
if -p is specified, then -n is implied. Further
specifying -n does no harm.

Claudio


                
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