Re: code cleanup

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 17:28:32 -0700
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.

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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Sat May 01 2004 - 15:28:44 UTC

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