grep Re: [Techtalk] real life kewl text-processing and regexps samples wanted

[Daniel]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:14:34PM +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> But one thing I haven't seen mentioned in all these grep tricks is
> grep -r.

This is because grep -r is braindead (may be this is fixed, but
it was the last time I tried), if it finds an irregular file, for
example a socket, it hangs forever.

Read: grep -r is considered harmfull.

                                                -Daniel-