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Re: grep problem
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: grep problem |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:27:01 -0600 |
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> I'm not the grep maintainer, but '--recursive' was the top request
> for enhancement and been in grep since 1998:
I am sure it was. And my post was too perhaps written to dry and
should have had severe cynicism wrapped around it so you could see my
eyes rolling when I wrote it. I do not expect -r to be removed. But
I do see the addition of it to all commands as part of the decline of
the philosophy of a simple modular system.
Eventually every command will have a complete filesystem traversion
mechanism and all will be slightly different. People want what they
want whether it is a good thing or not and that is all there is to it.
Just the -r option is a good example of why recursion should be left
to find. Should it be '-r' or '-R'? If the commands that implement
filesystem traversal can't keep that single option consistent what
hope is there for everything else? None I am afraid. Sigh.
Bob