On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:54:05PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > The trouble is that to fix this would require not just looking at the > manpage for grep to work out which variables to unset, but also the > manpages for every other tool that we use, looking at each variable the > user *might* set, and seeing if it could be harmful. > > I don't think this is a reasonable thing for us to do.
No, I agree- that is overkill. Some of the people I have discussed this with would rather see GREP_OPTIONS dropped from GNU grep ;) > > I note that --colour=auto makes grep selectively colour and I presume it > > only does it for interactive terminals: apache builds ok with this set. > > Yes, --color=auto is a much more reasonable approach. The grep docs say that you can use 'always', 'never', 'auto', but don't actually explain what they are (all but auto of course are fairly self-explanatory). Perhaps this could be a reassign minor doc bug on grep? Something I'd work on patching myself. (must remember to see where debian stands with the gnu documentation these days, could be letting myself into a bigger job than I realise ;)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
