Code review comment for lp:~parthm/bzr/503670-vila-grep-as-builtin

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

On 26 February 2010 16:54, Parth Malwankar <email address hidden> wrote:
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>> It would be nice to also have the option to pipe files through an
>> external grep so people can get extra features from grep.
>> --
>> Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>
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> Sounds like a good idea. '--cat-only'.

Well, actually I meant --external-grep=PROG, and then that can be run
for each file, using eg gnu grep's --label argument to indicate which
version of which file it is.

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

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