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From: "Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: grep portability fixes
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:10:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2b179460809300410q47592f63y7f7ec626007ad838@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080930080355.GA19605@sigill.intra.peff.net>

2008/9/30 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> We try to avoid using the "-q" or "-e" options, as they are
> largely useless, as explained in aadbe44f.
>
> There is one exception for "-e" here, which is in t7701 used
> to produce an "or" of patterns. This can be rewritten as an
> egrep pattern.
>
> This patch also removes use of "grep -F" in favor of the
> more widely available "fgrep".

Works here too (AIX 5.3)

Tested-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-30  8:03 [PATCH] tests: grep portability fixes Jeff King
2008-09-30 10:12 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-09-30 10:29   ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-30 12:45     ` Jeff King
2008-09-30 10:25 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-30 11:10 ` Mike Ralphson [this message]
2008-09-30 12:44   ` Jeff King

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