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Except when you pass `-r` and you pass a directory in place of the filename. But maybe it should have been `-r <directory>` and still no positional file paramet
by planede 4y ago
Except when you pass `-r` and you pass a directory in place of the filename. But maybe it should have been `-r <directory>` and still no positional file parameter. The ship has been sailed a long ago though.
- mprovost 4y agoThe newer generation of grep-like utilities (ack, ag, rg) recurse through a directory parameter by default. Of course you could always do this with find.