grep is working fine in msys/mingw, and has been for many years. I do not remember if I have ever seen it not having the recursive option there. It has been wor

grep is working fine in msys/mingw, and has been for many years. I do not remember if I have ever seen it not having the recursive option there. It has been working for my in Cygwin, too. As well as many other utilities ported from unix to Windows.