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Re: Why does not rgrep use "grep -r"?


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: Why does not rgrep use "grep -r"?
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:32:57 +0100
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Jason Rumney wrote:
Miles Bader wrote:
However on non-unixish platforms, maybe such issues as the availability
of findutils (or as Eli mentioned, widespread buggy versions of
findutils) might make using grep -r more attractive?

It's not so much the availability of find on Windows, more the fact that
there is a standard system command with the same name that is not
compatible. So users have to be knowledgeable enough about Windows to
order their PATH so that the findutils version is found first, and
periodically fix the reversions that can occur after system updates or
program installers move the standard windows command directories back to
the beginning of PATH.

Jason, did you see my message about the probelm with spaces in the searches?




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