Re: grep problem

[Stepan Kasal]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:16:48PM +1000, Dave Davey wrote:
> ... problem really is that it will stray into /dev if asked ...

Hello,
        I don't think grep should really care about this.
I'd say that some combination of find & grep could solve the problem.

Even if grep -r treated special files specially, you'd get trapped by
"regular files" like /proc/kcore.

Well, I'm not the grep maintainer, so this is just my opinion, not
an official statement in any sense.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal