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no snark here, but the subtitle was the start of my confusion: what does "user-friendly" mean in the context of grep, and why should I believe the claim? regul
by fsckboy 3y ago
no snark here, but the subtitle was the start of my confusion: what does "user-friendly" mean in the context of grep, and why should I believe the claim?
regular expressions are not friendly, but the user friendly way for a cli filter to behave is to return retvals appropriately, output to stdout, error messages to stderr... does user friendly mean copious output to stderr? what else could it possibly mean? do I want copious output to stderr?
- infamia 3y ago> no snark here, but the subtitle was the start of my confusion: what does "user-friendly" mean in the context of grep, and why should I believe the claim? Granted, it is far from a thing of beauty, but there is a large, captioned screenshot of the included text user interface just beneath. Then again, it is a website for a command line tool. "Many Bothans died to bring us this information."