grep is always recursive
Loïc Grenié
loic.grenie at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 19:07:51 UTC 2009
2009/1/24 Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net>:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:17:32PM +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote:
>>
>> Do you have the possibility to try your recursive grep
>> on the computer where grep is not recursive and the
>> non-recursive grep on the computer where grep is
>> recursive (cross test) ?
>
> Sure, but I don't follow how to do this, like 'ssh $computer2 grep a
> *' ?
scp $computer2:/bin/grep /tmp
/tmp/grep a *
scp /bin/grep $computer2:/tmp
ssh $computer2
(on computer2)
/tmp/grep a *
> On my home (problem) system, I have not found a way to do a
> non-recursive grep, short of chaining it with 'find'. Doing
>
> GREP_OPTIONS=''; grep a *
GREP_OPTIONS='' grep a *
(without ;)
Loïc
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