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. -- Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org/ TrustedBSD Project http://www.TrustedBSD.org/
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