RE: Grep & recursion

["Ronald Landheer" <info at rlsystems dot net>]

Hello Randall, Larry /et al/

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> I cannot replicate your results when invoking grep as you indicate
> from a Cygwin BASH shell. There is an extensive directory structure
> and there were in fact many files with the pattern "foo" but the
> diagnostic about "Permission denied" on directories never appeared.
<snip>
> grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
<snip>
> BASH_VERSION=$'2.05.0(8)-release'
<snip>
> WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195
The only difference seems to be in the version of Windows..

Larry Hall wrote:
> Dunno.  You'll have to debug it to find out.  Personally, the
> complaints about the directory aren't that surprising to me, although
> they are of little value.  I personally wouldn't mind seeing the
> behavior you describe for the DJGPP version with the Cygwin version,
> if you're willing to track down the issue and supply a patch.
I guess I'll have to do that, then :) I do have the source, so I'll have 
a look.. (I'd just hoped this was a known issue to someone on the list.)

Greetz!

Ronald


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