Paul Eggert wrote: > Here's a proposed change to GNU grep so that 'grep -r' > no longer follows symlinks, and by default does not > read devices, which is more convenient in the typical > use case. Symlinks and devices on the command line are > still dereferenced; the change affects only symlinks and > devices encountered recursively. Users who want dereferencing > for all files can use -R, which retains its old meaning. ... > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS ... > +** Changes in behavior > + > + The -r (--recursive) option now follows only command-line symlinks. > + Also, by default -r now reads only devices named on the command
That could be misconstrued ;-) How about this instead: Also, by default -r now reads a device only if it is named on the command Something came up, so this is all for now.
