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Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.1 | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.texi | 16 |
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ .de Id .ds Dt \\$4 .. -.Id $Id: grep.1,v 1.30 2005/06/21 14:58:50 charles_levert Exp $ +.Id $Id: grep.1,v 1.31 2005/06/21 15:22:58 charles_levert Exp $ .TH GREP 1 \*(Dt "GNU Project" .SH NAME grep, egrep, fgrep \- print lines matching a pattern @@ -386,6 +386,22 @@ and should redirect standard and error output to .B /dev/null instead. .TP +.BR \-T ", " \-\^\-initial\-tab +Makes sure that the first character of actual line content lies on a +tab stop, so that the alignment of tabs looks normal. +This is useful when combined with +.B \-H +(which is implicit when there is more than one file to search), +.BR \-n , +and +.BR \-b ; +these options prepend their output at the beginning of the displayed +line, before the actual content. +In order to improve the probability that all matched or context lines +from a single file will all start at the same column, this also causes +the line number and octet offset (if present) to be printed in a minimum +size field width. +.TP .BR \-U ", " \-\^\-binary Treat the file(s) as binary. By default, under MS-DOS and MS-Windows, .BR grep diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi index e0de9815..e42324fa 100644 --- a/doc/grep.texi +++ b/doc/grep.texi @@ -523,6 +523,22 @@ yields better performance. However, @samp{--mmap} can cause undefined behavior (including core dumps) if an input file shrinks while @command{grep} is operating, or if an I/O error occurs. +@item -T +@itemx --initial-tab +@opindex -T +@opindex --initial-tab +@cindex tab-aligned content lines +Makes sure that the first character of actual line content lies on a +tab stop, so that the alignment of tabs looks normal. +This is useful when combined with @samp{-H} (which is implicit when +there is more than one file to search), @samp{-n}, and @samp{-b}; +these options prepend their output at the beginning of the displayed +line, before the actual content. +In order to improve the probability that all matched or context lines +from a single file will all start at the same column, this also causes +the line number and octet offset (if present) to be printed in a minimum +size field width. + @item -Z @itemx --null @opindex -Z |