grep is always recursive

Hal Burgiss hal at burgiss.net
Sat Jan 24 18:02:27 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:19:31PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> Aliased, or symlinked via /etc/alternatives to rgrep?
> 
> Also, do: export | grep GREP
> 
> I think it should be possible to set this via GREP_OPTIONS

Yes, original post had a 'set |grep GREP', the implications of which
are certainly possible.

halb at honey:~$ ll /etc/alternatives/*grep*
ls: cannot access /etc/alternatives/*grep*: No such file or directory

halb at honey:~$ export | grep GREP
halb at honey:~$ 

Thanks.

-- 
Hal





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