Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 09:36:16AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2016-07-01, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> >
> > I freely admit I didn't know, but now I do:
> >
> > -R follows (recursively) symbolic links
> > -r follows a symbolic link only if it is the top-level argument
>
> I looked it up in the man page too. It said:
>
> -R, -r, --recursive
> Read all files under each directory, recursively; this
> is equivalent to the -d recurse option.
Hm. My man page seems more complete (it's the one in Debian coming with
GNU grep 2.20, Debian package grep 2.20-4.1 -- progress or regression?
[...]
> The info page also talks about why grep reports binary file matches, but
> suppresses the output (not useful and display-mucking). You can force
> grep to display output from seemingly binary files with the '-a' flag or
> eliminate the binary file matches messages with the '-I' flag.
I also enjoy the -A and -B options, while we're at it :^)
regards
- -- t
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