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?
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