code cleanup
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Sat May 1 17:28:45 PDT 2004
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:28:09PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> so I don't have any object files under /sys to slow down the search,
> except grep -r would follow this symlink too.
>
> Perhaps it is a bug for grep -r to follow symlinks by default, especially
> since there is no way to change the default and whether symlinks are
> followed is not mentioned in the man page.
'-R' is an undocumented alias for '-r'. Perhaps we could turn '-R' into
'-r' but not following symlinks.
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-- David (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
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