Re: grep patch

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:47:08PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > > grep -h pattern | sed "s,^,$fn:,"
> > > 
> > > It works bad when I use grep with options such as -C


...

> > > > grep -r is used often enough that it's reasonable to have as an
> > > > option, both for convenience and performance.
> > > 
> > > This options used often because grep has it.
> > 
> > No, you've got it backwards.  grep didn't have -r for many years, but
> > many ordinary users kept asking for it, so it got added to grep.  As
> > far as I know you are the only one who's ever asked for anything like
> > --fake-filename.
> 
> You should answer them -- use find. grep with option -r cannot do a lot
> of things, that find + grep can, for instance, I often do something
> like:
> find . -name '*.h' | xargs grep -w uint32_t
> 
> find intended for finding files, grep -- for grepping them :-)

grep --include=*.h -r uint32_t .


--include --exclude as been part of 2.5e(should in 2.5f) for sometimes.
They were not meant to replace find, but rather a quicker way to 
express this particular idiom.