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Bug #12785

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grep -h ignored with -r

Added by Peter Tribble almost 3 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

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Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Peter Tribble
Category:
cmd - userland programs
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% Done:

100%

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Medium
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Description

Following the update of grep in #8858, grep -hr no longer works as expected.

A recursive grep (grep -r) will show matched filenames by default, but it's expected that -h will disable this. That's true of the old /usr/bin/grep and of GNU grep, but not of the old xpg4 grep and hence our current grep, which displays matching filenames if both -h and -r are given

Looking at the code, recursion sets outfn to 1. In the old grep, this was considered along with hflag at the output stage, allowing -h to override. This is no longer the case.

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 #2

Updated by Peter Tribble almost 3 years ago

Testing notes:

Manually tested that the new grep displays filenames (or not) as
expected depending on whether -h, -H, or neither, are given along with
-r.

Also updated the test suite to add tests for -h/-H and -r. The new
grep passes, as does GNU grep; the current grep fails the -hr test.

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 #3

Updated by Electric Monk almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

git commit 4adc6f153a42519cb03b97bf215e1d4823300ebe

commit  4adc6f153a42519cb03b97bf215e1d4823300ebe
Author: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com>
Date:   2020-05-28T08:21:44.000Z

    12785 grep -h ignored with -r
    Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net>
    Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <omnios@citrus-it.co.uk>
    Approved by: Joshua M. Clulow <josh@sysmgr.org>

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