[bug #23401] Add option to skip symlinks

[Bob Proulx]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #23401 (project grep):

> I suggest to add option which if specified in addition to -r would prevent
> grep from processing symlinks.
> It is a headache that "grep -r /etc/" processes all symlinks in this
folder.

This is really a better case to use find.

  find /etc -type f -exec grep PATTERN {} +

That command already provides this functionality, is standard, and works with
all of the utilities.  Adding all of 'find's behavior to grep is undesirable
duplication. 


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