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by **Chris_Greg** » Sat, 10 May 1997 04:00:00

> Does anybody no why the option -v has that letter?

inVert

i and n were already taken.

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by **Magnus Lab** » Sat, 10 May 1997 04:00:00

Does anybody no why the option -v has that letter?
AFAIK -v is used normally for verbose mode.
(I do not want to know what the option -v does)
Magnus

by **Tad McClell** » Sat, 10 May 1997 04:00:00

: Does anybody no why the option -v has that letter?

Probably because -i was already used for <i>gnore case

So they choose to use -v for in<v>ert...

: AFAIK -v is used normally for verbose mode.
: (I do not want to know what the option -v does)

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by **Mike Ekhol** » Sat, 10 May 1997 04:00:00

On 9 May 1997 14:57:33 GMT, Magnus said these wise words:

: Does anybody no why the option -v has that letter?
: AFAIK -v is used normally for verbose mode.
: (I do not want to know what the option -v does)
: Magnus

the -v stands for inVert
-i is already used for ignore, I think.

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by **Villy Kru** » Sun, 11 May 1997 04:00:00

>: Does anybody no why the option -v has that letter?
>: AFAIK -v is used normally for verbose mode.
>: (I do not want to know what the option -v does)

It might have been inspired by the v command in ed like
g/RE/p is regular grep
v/RE/p is the inverse grep.

Now, why was the letter v chosen for that function in ed??????

This is only guessing

Villy

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