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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:47:18 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Replacing GNU grep revisited
Message-ID:  <20030623104718.GA49264@holly.machined.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030622092848.R28123@thor.farley.org>
References:  <20030621103502.K18572@thor.farley.org> <20030622005852.GB59673@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030622092848.R28123@thor.farley.org>

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On Sunday, June 22, 2003, Sean Farley wrote:
> Reasons to consider for switching:
> 1. GNU's grep -r option "is broken" according to the following post.
>    The only thing I have noticed is that FreeGrep has more options for
>    controlling how symbolic links are traversed.
>    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&selm=xzp7kchblor.fsf_flood.ping.uio.no%40ns.sol.net

   A workaround for this problem in the meantime would be to use

     find <directory> -type f | xargs grep EXPR

   Just FYI.

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Chris Costello                                <chris@FreeBSD.org>
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