Re: [patch #4354] add --no-recurse-symlinks feature

[Bob Proulx]

Charles Levert wrote:
> The find command already does not follow symbolic links by default, so that
> the following pipeline can be used:
> 
>   find /usr/include -type f -print0 | xargs -0r grep -H lstat

Yes.  Must bettern.

> instead of a hypothetically new
> 
>   grep -r --no-recurse-symlinks lstat /usr/include

Ugh.

> Do we really need to duplicate all of find's expressiveness in grep?

Putting directory recursion into grep opened a Pandora's box of
problems such as these.

It seems strange that grep follows symlinks...

Bob