Re: grep: default file if -r is used

[Koblinger Egmont]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Paul Jarc wrote:

> FWIW, I'd prefer -R or a new option.  (Even then, I'm not really happy
> with the fact that $GREP_OPTIONS could break a script.  But I suppose
> it can already break scripts in different ways.)

Sure it can... show me a script that always behaves correctly, no matter
how I set LANG, LC_*, SHELL, SHELLOPTS, IFS, USER, HOME, _POSIXLY_CORRECT,
_POSIX2_VERSION and a bunch of other variables... it's kind of impossible.
Scripts always assume that you have a reasonable set of env vars.


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Egmont