From: utzoo!decvax!cca!HOLSTEGE@CIT-20@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: btl grep vs ucb grep Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1577 Posted: Fri May 28 15:32:46 1982 Received: Sat May 29 07:34:24 1982 Date: 28 Apr 1982 2218-PDT Bell's grep, when it finds an error in the regular expression, complains and exits. UCB's grep, complains and continues, and as a result, spits out an unending chain (or maybe one per line) of 'RE error' messages. Is there any reason for it not exiting as does btl's? -------