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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> | 2020-12-23 09:30:19 -0800 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> | 2020-12-25 08:44:07 -0800 |
| commit | 62f80185508ce8c59cdb99724c5cc8710c29f523 (patch) | |
| tree | 6df4b375d62d1284df0581278304de2487c56709 /doc | |
| parent | 91ce9cdad384cb6d774e9884707c7f00946d909d (diff) | |
| download | grep-62f80185508ce8c59cdb99724c5cc8710c29f523.tar.gz | |
grep: use of --unix-byte-offsets (-u) now elicits a warning
* NEWS (Change in behavior): Mention this.
* src/grep.c (main): Warn about each use of obsolete
--unix-byte-offsets (-u).
* doc/grep.in.1 (-u): Remove its documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.in.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1 index 3bd31310..9039c9a9 100644 --- a/doc/grep.in.1 +++ b/doc/grep.in.1 @@ -426,20 +426,6 @@ from a single file will all start at the same column, this also causes the line number and byte offset (if present) to be printed in a minimum size field width. .TP -.BR \-u ", " \-\^\-unix\-byte\-offsets -Report Unix-style byte offsets. -This switch causes -.B grep -to report byte offsets as if the file were a Unix-style text file, -i.e., with CR characters stripped off. -This will produce results identical to running -.B grep -on a Unix machine. -This option has no effect unless -.B \-b -option is also used; -it has no effect on platforms other than MS-DOS and MS-Windows. -.TP .BR \-Z ", " \-\^\-null Output a zero byte (the ASCII .B NUL |