On 2016-07-01, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> I freely admit I didn't know, but now I do:
>
> -R follows (recursively) symbolic links
> -r follows a symbolic link only if it is the top-level argument
I looked it up in the man page too. It said:
-R, -r, --recursive
Read all files under each directory, recursively; this
is equivalent to the -d recurse option.
Only the info page gives the distinction you've noted above.
('--recursive' is equivalent to 'r' and 'deference-recursive' is
equivalent to '-R')
The info page also talks about why grep reports binary file matches, but
suppresses the output (not useful and display-mucking). You can force
grep to display output from seemingly binary files with the '-a' flag or
eliminate the binary file matches messages with the '-I' flag.
Whew.
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