[ILUG] new grep

[kevin lyda]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:33:43PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote:
> REPVIK OYVIND wrote:
> > I believe loads of options could be added to both sed and grep. But then it
> > would no longer follow the KISS principle. That is in my opinion one of the
> > things that makes *nix so great. 
> > 
> > sed does it's stuff. Grep does it's stuff. It's as simple as that, no?
> Well that's exactly my point.
> Basically all systems should have as high cohesion
> and as low coupling as possible.
> I think that sed/grep are quite cohesive
> and therefore could be merged?

uh...  i don't use grep to edit files, i use it to search them.  i don't
use sed to search files, i use it to change them.  they're two separate
activities.  grep provides a fast way to search files - and it's simple
syntax reflects that.  sed has more complex syntax, but it's doing a
more complex task.

kevin

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