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No, because the suggestion behavior is a direct function of the UI. I may expect my shell to offer suggestions or autocomplete based on previous history, however. With either program, I expect them to both perform the core task of "download stuff".

Dash and grep may have different interfaces, but if their core purpose is "search stuff", it is not wholly unreasonable to expect them to be able to search the same stuff.

[grep is probably the wrong tool. perhaps the output should be included in find instead.]



> if their core purpose is "search stuff"

As I said, they are the same tool only in the most superficial of senses. Is the purpose of this ubuntu thing even to grep input streams or files? Or did the submitter of this 'bug' actually mean to file a bug for slocate, mlocate, or find? Does it do both? These tools have completely different purposes and uses.

How about this for another reason though: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/gre... GNU is bad enough, having Ubuntu tack on whatever shit they feel is "user friendly" would turn the situation into a usability nightmare.

PS. Is this thing seriously called dash? If so, that is terrible. The name 'dash' is already taken... in the FOSS world... by Ubuntu's daddy distro Debian. Hell, Googling "ubuntu dash" returns first results for the proper dash. What the hell were they thinking?




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