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Re: grep -R vs. symlinks to directories
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Stepan Kasal |
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Re: grep -R vs. symlinks to directories |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:58:46 +0200 |
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Hello,
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:30:07PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I really like grep's -R (--recursive) option and use it a lot.
> > However, I'm regularly annoyed to see that it makes grep follow symlinks
> > to directories. In my case, that behavior has always been undesirable, so
> > I've simply turned it off in my copy. This should probably be controlled
> > by an option. It's a shame that the -P, -H, and -L options (typically
> > used to control how recursion works wrt symlinks) are already taken.
> > Maybe --dereference={always,never,command-line}?
>
> I second this. Also, the default should be --dereference=command-line.
> I can compose a patch if you like.
it would be very welcome, of course.
Thank you,
Stepan