On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:09:50PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I've made a new version of 'grep' available for download. This updates >>the package to the latest version available from ftp.gnu.org. I've >>included the update info from the /usr/doc/grep-2.5g/NEWS file below. >> >>For a brief descripton of this package, see http://cygwin.com/packages/ >>. > >Could we get grep to silently ignore directories? For example, if I >grep "asdf" * and there exists a directory called foo I see: > >grep: foo: is a directory > >I see there is a -d option and I can say -d skip. I guess what I'm >asking for then is to have -d default to skip instead of read.
Contact the grep developers. I'm sure you can find an appropriate mailing list here http://www.gnu.org/prep/mailinglists.html . I wonder if they'll have the same response to "can I please have this" requests as I do... cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
