> From: Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.5g
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:09:50 -0800
> 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.
>
Or you could just use 'grep -s'.
>From 'man grep':
-s, --no-messages
Suppress error messages about nonexistent or
unreadable files. Portability note: unlike GNU
grep, traditional grep did not conform to POSIX.2,
because traditional grep lacked a -q option and its
-s option behaved like GNU grep's -q option. Shell
scripts intended to be portable to traditional grep
should avoid both -q and -s and should redirect
output to /dev/null instead.
grep-aholics might also be interested in:
-r, --recursive
Read all files under each directory, recursively;
this is equivalent to the -d recurse option.
I used to always use find -exec grep {} \; until I switched to
GNU grep 2+, which has the -r option.
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