Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

[Shankar Unni]

Mark Blackburn wrote:

If I type:
   $ grep -e hello -r .
I get:
   grep: .: File exists
and grep doesn't search the contents of any files

Data point: doesn't happen with the stock grep 2.5-1 on 1.3.17-1 on WinXP Pro SP1 (everything's the same except the OS). Works fine here.




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