Alan Curry wrote: > Do you suppose we can convince GNU grep's maintainer to follow this > philosphy?
Too late. GNU grep already has --recursive. I think adding --recursive to grep was a mistake. It then requires most of 'find' to be added to it too. (--include*, --exclude*) > $ mkdir d > $ touch d/foo > $ grep foo * > $ > > It opens and reads, gets EISDIR, and intentionally skips printing it. Grr. All silently. For most cases I think your example would have been a a case of programming error. It would be better to make those cases noisy. The above seems to be a bug since it violates the documented action of 'read' for directories. It appears to be skipping by default. Even when --directories=read is specified. > But wait, there's a -d option with 3 alternatives for what to do with > directories! ...and none of choices is "just print the EISDIR so I'll know > if I accidentally grepped a directory". And the problems just go on and on. Bob
