Re: [pcre-dev] Suggested addition for pcregrep

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Sheri
CC: pcre-dev@exim.org
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Suggested addition for pcregrep
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Sheri wrote:

> Could you please add an option for naming a file that contains a list of files
> to be searched? Possibly --filelist=


Noted. Sounds perfectly reasonable.

> Since globbing doesn't work at all when pcregrep is built in some
> environments, the user could create a list by piping from the dir command.


Presumably the files in the list are newline-separated (that is, by
CRLF)? The option should probabably allow for any ASCII newline
separator.

Philip

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