GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scripts

Re:GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, brea... by lubutu on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:45AM (#4295905)

In POSIX -R is the recursion flag for ls, cp, rm, etc. So if you want to recurse, -R is probably a safer bet than -r. (ls -r just lists in reverse.)

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Re:GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, brea... by buster on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:53AM (#4295939)

Yeah, that may be it.. I'm wondering why they didn't just add a new option (aka --no-symlinks) or something

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Re:GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, brea... by a3_nm on Thursday July 26, 2012 @02:23PM (#4297720)

Annoying exception: scp only accepts -r as recursion flag, not -R.

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Re:GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, brea... by wildmXranat on Thursday July 26, 2012 @10:09AM (#4296020)

Same here. I've been conditioned to use -R

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Re:GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, brea... by mturmon on Thursday July 26, 2012 @04:53PM (#4298660)

Good point. Also, since you reminded me, chmod, chown, chgrp.

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Re:GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, brea... by leif on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:48AM (#4295919)

that's probably it

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