grep(1) documents bsdgrep, but GNU grep is installed as 'grep'

Kyle Evans kevans at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 9 02:48:18 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:44 PM Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:36 PM Rebecca Cran via freebsd-stable
> <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > grep(1) documents the "--exclude-dir" option, but running "grep" complains
> > it's unknown. Also, 'rgrep' doesn't exist.
> > It turns out that the grep binary is GNU grep 2.5.1, while bsdgrep supports
> > the option.
> >
> > Is WITH_BSD_GREP supposed to be defaulted to on for 12.0 and newer, or was the
> > man page switched over too soon?
> >
>
> Yeah, I think we botched that -- maybe we'll call it optimism. =(
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/grep/Makefile?view=markup#l13
> should read "MAN1= bsdgrep.1 zgrep.1" rather than grep.1 zgrep.1, I
> believe. (CC bapt@ for a second eye, since this was during zgrep
> stuff)
>

It's a trivial enough fix that I verified it and just went ahead to
commit it as r342874; sorry for that!


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