On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:29:38AM -0600, Kenneth Stephen wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Gaurav wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I work on Solaris and if I do
> > grep -ins 'pattern' `find . *`
> > Then it fails if there is a large directory and subdirectories inside
> > the current directory...and my grep is not having -r option...which is a
> > quality of linux grep that it can recursively search directories(Wow!).
> >
> Really? Which distribution of Linux are you using? I use Debian,
> and its grep doesnt have any recursive option.
>
I use Debian too, however your headers say exim 2.05 which comes with
Debian stable, which comes with GNU grep 2.2
Debian frozen(potato) has GNU grep 2.4 which accepts -r, Therefore it
was introduced in either 2.3 or 2.4
(Remember this one Lawson?)
have fun
greg
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