grep is always recursive

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote:
>   instance (not the same kind, though).
> 
>     As a (last ?) resort you can try to
> 
> strace -o /tmp/trace grep a *
> 
>   both at home and elsewhere,
> 
> scp $elsewhere:/tmp/trace /tmp/trace2
> diff /tmp/trace /tmp/trace2
> 
>   and see if something stand out.

Well, my personal, home system has radically different contents, ie
music, pictures, etc. The other systems are "work" systems, with
different home contents.

-- 
Hal