-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 09:36:16AM +0000, Curt wrote: > 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.
Hm. My man page seems more complete (it's the one in Debian coming with GNU grep 2.20, Debian package grep 2.20-4.1 -- progress or regression? [...] > 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. I also enjoy the -A and -B options, while we're at it :^) regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAld2PA4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZv9wCeKsxA2yz9RE0yWNJ1pmvU1xeH C3QAn0cRyqK4JnHwecr9LrzjQ6b2U1gw =YEBC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
