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From: Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Replacing GNU grep revisited
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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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