Re: grep problem

[Bob Proulx]

> 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.

Bob