On 2025-01-16 08:05, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2025-01-15 02:51, Anton Samokat wrote:
>> Please, make it more simple and straightforward, remove possible ambiguity
>
> Unfortunately these are competing goals.
>
> Perhaps this would be better:
>
> If no FILE is given read standard input, but if -r is given recursively
> search the working directory instead.
> [...]
Interesting. How about:
If no FILE is given, grep's behaviour depends on the -r (recursive)
option, which is disabled (non-recursive) by default:
- If non-recursive, then read standard input; otherwise
- If recursive, examine all files in the working directory,
including recursively descending into subdirectories.
No idea if this is good, bad, or indifferent... others can decide.
s-b etc.
