Re: recurse directories option for grep

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> I seemed to have found a bug in
> address@hidden --version
> grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
> 
> This is running from cygwin on Windows NT4.0 w/ Service Pack 6
> 
> the problem is with the recurse directories '-r' option. If no matching 
> filetypes are found in the current directory grep does NOT proceed to 
> recurse the subdirs.
> 
> for e.g. running "grep -r void *.cpp" on the following dir tree
> returns "grep: No match" without checking the subdirs code1 and code2

Please read more carefully the documentation that comes with GNU grep on
the behaviour of the '-r' and '--directories' options.  GNU grep comes
with an info file also.

In short, grep will recurse in the directories you specify on the command
line.

Thanks for the feedback

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alain