Re: grep problem

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> > I'm not the grep maintainer, but '--recursive' was the top request
> > for enhancement and been in grep since 1998:
> 
> I am sure it was.  And my post was too perhaps written to dry and
> should have had severe cynicism wrapped around it so you could see my
> eyes rolling when I wrote it.  I do not expect -r to be removed.
> But I do see the addition of it to all commands as part of the decline of
> the philosophy of a simple modular system.
> 
> Eventually every command will have a complete filesystem traversion
> mechanism and all will be slightly different.  People want what they
> want whether it is a good thing or not and that is all there is to it.
> 
> Just the -r option is a good example of why recursion should be left
> to find.  Should it be '-r' or '-R'?  If the commands that implement
> filesystem traversal can't keep that single option consistent what
> hope is there for everything else?  None I am afraid.  Sigh.

The reply was meant to be informative and yes I read the nostalgia between the
lines:
- software nowadays are bloated
- Not following the Unix spirit
- etc ...

8-), ok.
But software should be about ease of use and ergonomy.