grep is always recursive

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 18:33 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > I do not think we want to change the documentation.  From a standards
> > perspective, we want to put options first and not encourage people to
> > place them willy-nilly on the command line.
> 
> Honestly, placing options willy-nilly is convenient far more than it's
> harmful. For instance, I often tack -l at the end of ls commands.  E.g.
> in succession:

Convenient, yes.  But I would not write a script depending on the GNU
getopt behavior if I wanted it to be portable.
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