Bob Proulx writes:
>
> severity 10355 wishlist
> tags 10355 + notabug wontfix moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> > >I was using a way to check md5sum on a lot of file using
> > > for myfile in `cat ${ALLFILES}`; do if [ -f /${myfile} ]; then md5sum
> > >/$myfile>> $ALLFILES}.md5; fi; done
> >...
> > You could use "find $DIR -type f" to list regular files only.
>
> Yes. Exactly. The capability you ask for is already present.
Do you suppose we can convince GNU grep's maintainer to follow this
philosphy?
$ mkdir d
$ touch d/foo
$ grep foo *
$
It opens and reads, gets EISDIR, and intentionally skips printing it. Grr.
But wait, there's a -d option with 3 alternatives for what to do with
directories! ...and none of choices is "just print the EISDIR so I'll know
if I accidentally grepped a directory".
--
Alan Curry
