On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 4:43 AM Chris Drake <cryptoph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like the -r and -R got mixed up? > > What is now the "-R" behaves the same way as the original "-r", and now the > new "-r" behaves differently. > > For backwards-compatibility, the original behaviour should have been > preserved, and the new feature assigned to a new switch ?
Hi Chris, There was no mix-up, and this is not new. This was a deliberate decision that dates back to 2012 (first release with it was 2.12). Sorry this causes you difficulty, but at least one other grep implementation has -r and -R options that work this way: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=grep
