On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM David G. Pickett <dgpick...@aol.com> wrote: > Should both -r and file names raise an error? > > $ grep -r xxx yyy zzz > grep: yyy: No such file or directory > grep: zzz: No such file or directory
That is expected behavior. In that case, you've made a legitimate request to search recursively for "xxx" in yyy and zzz. It would probably elicit no diagnostic if you had files or directories named yyy and zzz.
