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From: kent@happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <449@happym.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 88 02:35:46 GMT
References: <136@rubmez.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt)
Organization: Happy Man Corp.
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In article <136@rubmez.UUCP> frei@rubmez.UUCP (Matthias Frei ) writes:
>I want following flags:
>
>	- d	divert the file
>		"matches" to stdout
>		"nomatches" to stderr
>	-r	exchange stdout and stderr, if -d is given  

I second the vote - just today I did one of these:

grep $PATTERN file > afile
grep -v $PATTERN file > anotherfile

Note, however, that -v will serve for the suggested -r.

>Will you post Your new grep to the net ? (I hope so)

From alice.UUCP??  Ha ha!  That's Bell Labs!  It will be in V10 
Unix, and none of us humans will see it until sysVr6, and only then 
if we are lucky!! 
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