On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 01:44:42AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Roman Bolshakov wrote: > > - added /dev/null as an extra file for uniform grep output regardless of > > number of files. The file isn't added if grep invocation has "-L" flag > > Good point. And likewise, you don't need to add a /dev/null argument > when the grep invocation has a '-l' option (because in this case, the > output of > grep -l OPTIONS FILE > and > grep -l OPTIONS /dev/null FILE > is the same). >
Right, -l/-L behave alike and shouldn't need /dev/null. Thank you, Roman