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[Rick Moen]

Quoting Alan DuBoff (aland@SoftOrchestra.com):

> I was shying away from it as one person I know is running 2.0.x and his grep
> didn't have recursion in it.

  ymir:/tmp# uname -a
  Linux ymir 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown
  ymir:/tmp# apt-get install rgrep
  Updating package status cache...done
  Checking system integrity...ok
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    rgrep 
  0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 12.7k of archives. After unpacking 29.0k will be used.
  Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/main rgrep [12.7k]
  Fetched 12.7k in 1s (9367b/s)                            
  Selecting previously deselected package rgrep.
  (Reading database ... 43426 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking rgrep (from rgrep_0.98.7-14.deb) ...
  Setting up rgrep (0.98.7-14) ...
  ymir:/tmp# dpkg -s rgrep    
  Package: rgrep
  Status: install ok installed
  Priority: optional
  Section: text
  Installed-Size: 29
  Maintainer: "Christian Hammers" <ch@debian.org>
  Source: jed
  Version: 0.98.7-14
  Depends: libc6, slang1 (<< 1.3), slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0)
  Description: Recursive, highlighting grep program.
   Unlike grep and egrep, rgrep has the ability to recursively descend
   directories and highlighting matches.

  ymir:/tmp# 

Poor ol' ymir has had yet another personality transplant:  It was
FreeBSD 3.2 this morning, and it's Debian 2.1 again this evening.

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