Re: grep -r oddity

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Kurt V. Hindenburg" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:09:37 -0500
> 
> I'm using grep 2.4.2 with linux.
> 
> If I have a directory structure as follows:
> >ls
> b/ text1
> >ls b
> text2
> >cat text1 b/text2
> HELLO TEXT1
> HELLO TEXT2
> 
> >grep -r LL *
> text1:HELLO TEXT1
> 
> >From the docs it would appear that -r is not working correctly.  Shouldn't
> the above sample output both files?  If not, what's the -r for?

FWIW, it's working for me as you expect in Grep 2.4.