On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Norihiro Tanaka <nori...@kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> > Even if I define an alias "grep='grep -d skip'", when "find . | xargs grep" > doesn't ignore directories. > Since find does output directories, and clearly you don't want to grep on them, why not just do something like find . ! -type d | xargs grep To be even safer and work with any file name (containing even newlines), you actually need to do find . ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 grep So maybe you just want to alias this whole thing :-) I don't think this a reason to keep GREP_OPTIONS, but like I said I don't mind if it is kept if at least people are warned about how it might break shell scripts. -- Nadav Har'El n...@cloudius-systems.com
