grep : -r (recursive) option does not work when... ( grep (GNU grep) 2.4 )

[Andre Gompel]

Hello:
grep : -r (recursive) option does not work in the follwing context:

grep -ri   string *.c

The command is ran from a top directory but in this case the c files are at a 
lower level.

Grep exits without "going" to look for c files (in this example) in the lower 
level directories.   Error message: "No such file or directory".

I do believe that the -r option should either disable the error checking for 
this, or (better) only issue it if no qualified file is found in the 
directory tree.

Thanks for your attention.
Andre


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