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authorstanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>2012-07-05 13:12:04 -0500
committerstanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>2012-07-05 13:12:04 -0500
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g: expand matched files list and add to grep(1) man page
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.TH GREP 1
.SH NAME
-grep \- search a file for a pattern
+grep, g \- search a file for a pattern
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B grep
[
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ grep \- search a file for a pattern
[
.I file ...
]
+.br
+.B g
+[
+.B flags
+]
+.I pattern
+[
+.I file ...
+]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Grep\^
searches the input
@@ -96,8 +105,22 @@ in single quotes
An expression starting with '*'
will treat the rest of the expression
as literal characters.
+.PP
+.I G\^
+invokes
+.I grep
+with
+.B -n
+(plus aditional flags, if provided)
+and forces tagging of output lines by file name. If no files
+are listed, it searches all files matching
+.B *.asm *.cc *.cs *.lx *.cgi *.pl
+.B *.py *.tex *.ms *.java *.xy *.go
+.B *.goc
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/grep
+.br
+.B /rc/bin/g
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR ed (1),
.IR awk (1),