Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 17:28:32 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: code cleanup Message-ID: <20040502002832.GA6623@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040430231553.X15963@gamplex.bde.org> References: <200404291855.i3TItUTr048530@green.homeunix.org> <20040429215236.GA42902@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040430231553.X15963@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:28:09PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > so I don't have any object files under /sys to slow down the search, > except grep -r would follow this symlink too. > > Perhaps it is a bug for grep -r to follow symlinks by default, especially > since there is no way to change the default and whether symlinks are > followed is not mentioned in the man page. '-R' is an undocumented alias for '-r'. Perhaps we could turn '-R' into '-r' but not following symlinks. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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