On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:09:50PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>Could we get grep to silently ignore directories? For example, if I >>grep "asdf" * and there exists a directory called foo I see: >> >>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 .
This request can be trivially handled with an alias in .bashrc. alias grep="grep -d skip" -jeff -- 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/
