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Re: grep -r oddity
From: |
Alain Magloire |
Subject: |
Re: grep -r oddity |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:28:18 -0500 (EST) |
>
> I'm using grep 2.4.2 with linux.
>
> If I have a directory structure as follows:
> >ls
> b/ text1
> >ls b
> text2
> >cat text1 b/text2
> HELLO TEXT1
> HELLO TEXT2
>
> >grep -r LL *
> text1:HELLO TEXT1
>
> >From the docs it would appear that -r is not working correctly. Shouldn't
> the above sample output both files? If not, what's the -r for?
>
> I seem to recall an earlier grep working where it would print out both files.
This works fine with 2.4.2
# uname -rs
SunOS 5.8
# grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
...
# cat t1 b/t2
HELLO 1
HELLO
# grep -r LL .
./t1:HELLO 1
./b/t2:HELLO
# grep -r LL *
b/t2:HELLO
t1:HELLO 1
# ls -R
.:
b/ t1
./b:
t2
>
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au revoir, alain
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