grep replacement

[Kent Forschmiedt]

In article <136 at rubmez.UUCP> frei at rubmez.UUCP (Matthias Frei ) writes:
>I want following flags:
>
>	- d	divert the file
>		"matches" to stdout
>		"nomatches" to stderr
>	-r	exchange stdout and stderr, if -d is given  

I second the vote - just today I did one of these:

grep $PATTERN file > afile
grep -v $PATTERN file > anotherfile

Note, however, that -v will serve for the suggested -r.

>Will you post Your new grep to the net ? (I hope so)

>From alice.UUCP??  Ha ha!  That's Bell Labs!  It will be in V10 
Unix, and none of us humans will see it until sysVr6, and only then 
if we are lucky!! 
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