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Re:GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, brea... by emmelaich on Friday July 27, 2012 @12:40AM (#4300054)
I've only used -R, because of it's posixness. Finger memory from adminning Solaris.

Not to say that this is a good or bad change.

-R matches the -R in chown/chgrp

They should really introduce -r for those two to NOT follow symlinks. Following symlinks for those is bad.

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