grep is always recursive
Mark Kirkwood
markir at paradise.net.nz
Sun Jan 25 06:44:55 UTC 2009
Preston Kutzner wrote:
>
> Hal, by any chance does this behavior present itself if you log in as
> another user? If you don't have any other users setup on your system,
> I would suggest adding a new user (temporarily, you can remove it
> later) and log in as the new user and try running grep and see if it
> still behaves the same way. If it does not, it's something specific
> to your normal user account, and would therefore be some sort of
> environment setting in your $HOME dir. If it still exhibits the same
> behavior, it means it's a system-wide environment setting. At least
> it will help pin-down where we need to look (/etc, versus most likely
> one of the "dot" files in your home dir.)
I'm wondering if it might be a strangely named file in his $HOME. The
output from:
$ ls -la $HOME
would be interesting to see.
regards
Mark
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