Re: Grep man page: --line-buffering vs. --line-buffered

[Jori Mantysalo]

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> >       If an input file is a directory, use ACTION to process it.  By
> >       default, ACTION is `read', which means that directories are read

> In traditional UNIX, directory was very similar to a text file, containing
> inode number and name of the files on separate lines.

> Would you be so kind to suggest a text which would be more comprehensive?

Maybe "By default, ACTION is `read', which means that grep tries to read
directory as it were normal file; actually this behaves like `skip' on
most modern systems including Linux." But english is not my native
language, so I think that somebody should check what I wrote.

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Jori Mäntysalo