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grep: fix combination of quite and count flag
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Authored by oshogbo on Jul 8 2021, 11:45 AM.
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Summary

When the quite (-q) flag is provided, we don't expect any output.
Currently, the behavior is broken:
$ grep -cq flag util.c
1

$ grep -cs flag util.c
55

First of all, we print a number to stdout. Secondly, it just returns 0 or 1
(which is unexpected). GNU grep with c and q flags doesn't print anything.

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