> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 07:51:55 +0200 > From: Martin Natano <nat...@natano.net> > > grep reads from standard input when no files are specified. It also does > so when -R is used, which doesn't really make sense. I think using the > current working directory as a fallback when no directories are > specified would make sense. POSIX says "If no file operands are > specified, the standard input shall be used.", but -R is an extension > to POSIX, so I guess it is not bound by that. > > Far too often I've started a grep -R and waiting for the output, only to > recognize minutes later, that I forgot to add the '.' at the end of the > command and it is reading from stdin.
I do that without the -R option too ;). > Any thoughts? OK? Not convinced this is an improvement.
