Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!rutgers!gatech!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!eneevax!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: grep replacement Message-ID: <8032@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 7 Jun 88 08:59:56 GMT References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <2450011@hpsal2.HP.COM> <54818@sun.uucp> <10264@ncc.Nexus.CA> <44366@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 10 In article <44366@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes: >7th Edition grep had a -h flag to not print the filenames on a grep. >4BSD still has a -h flag. >System 5 doesn't have a -h flag. >(Another example of how System 5 is superior to BSD... and V7...) Maybe the AT&T folks figured that their customers were smart enough to type "cat files ... | grep". I've never had the need for a -h flag, but I sure would like for the -H (ALWAYS print filename) option to be the default instead of the current variable algorithm.