Your message dated Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:09:35 +1000
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and subject line Re: [bts-link] source package grep
has caused the Debian Bug report #368924,
regarding grep: grep -r recursing symlinks is unexpected and unfixable
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Package: grep
Version: 2.5.1.ds2-5
Severity: normal
with many commands, including find, the default is to not recurse symlinks.
but:
0 25-Thu-15-15-43 /tmp/grep# ls -lR
..:
total 4
drwx------ 2 kpc kpc 4096 05-25 15:09 a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kpc kpc 1 05-25 15:13 b -> a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kpc kpc 7 05-25 15:13 bfile -> a/afile
../a:
total 4
-rw------- 1 kpc kpc 6 05-25 15:09 afile
0 25-Thu-15-15-47 /tmp/grep# grep -r hello .
../a/afile:hello
../b/afile:hello
../bfile:hello
in the above, i propose that b not be recursed. bfile should still be printed.
i propose an option to get the current behavior, just as find has.
i also propose a more comprehensive solution in the form of allowing a list
of files to grep (which can be - for stdin), thus allowing you to use find and
grep
to specify the list of files to grep. but i will file that in a separate
report. even
with the comprehensive solution, i think the default behavior of grep -r
should be changed.
thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11--from-2.6.9-proc-config-and-menuconfig
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages grep depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
grep recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2.11-1
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 09:41:16AM -0700,
[email protected] wrote:
> #
> # bts-link upstream status pull for source package grep
> # see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00001.html
> #
>
> user [email protected]
>
> # remote status report for #368924 (http://bugs.debian.org/368924)
> # Bug title: grep: grep -r recursing symlinks is unexpected and unfixable
> # * http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=17623
> # * remote status changed: Open -> Closed
> # * remote resolution changed: (?) -> Fixed
> # * closed upstream
> tags 368924 + fixed-upstream
> usertags 368924 - status-Open
> usertags 368924 + status-Closed resolution-Fixed
>
> thanks
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