grep is always recursive

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:08:27AM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 
> The GNU option processor does not care where an option appears in the
> command line which is a little odd and not what the documentation
> suggests is the correct syntax. e.g. options come first before file
> names, etc.  Anything with a leading "-" is considered an option.  Try
> this sometime:
> 
> ls <file> -l <another_file>

It certainly seems counter-intuitive to me, if not potentially
dangerous. Imagine the accidental chaining of options with 'rm'.

In any case, there is one less mystery in the world!

-- 
Hal