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Re: grep -r: add default "."



On Fri, 2 Sep 2022, Thomas Klausner wrote:


I often forget the "." at the end of my 'grep -r'.
GNU grep automatically adds it, i.e.:

# grep -r foo
#

is the same as

# grep -r foo .
#

The grep we have in NetBSD recognizes that something is wrong, but is
not that helpful:

# grep -r foo
grep: warning: recursive search of stdin
(stops here, waiting for input)

I'd like the change the behaviour to match what GNU grep does.
Comments?
Thomas


Yes please! This has always bugged me.

Charlotte


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