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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:03:52 -0500
From:      parv <parv@pair.com>
To:        Francisco J Reyes <fran@natserv.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recursion with grep?
Message-ID:  <20031114040351.GA40112@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <20031113223951.X85161@zoraida.natserv.net>
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in message <20031113223951.X85161@zoraida.natserv.net>,
wrote Francisco J Reyes thusly...
>
> Do we want something like:
> grep -r <string> *.c

I do not know about anybody else, i myself like to keep the current
behaviour for -r option.


> If I get someone to change grep anyone care to comment on whether
> it would be difficult to get this imported into the tree?

If you do succeed in getting the change *in the FreeBSD 4 tree*, it
better be via some other option specifier string.


Isn't grep(1) already overloaded w/ options? (just thinking out
loud)


  - Parv

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