potato info

[Christoph Lameter]

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Alan DuBoff wrote:

> 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. I found that out the hard way trying to grep
> through a bunch of directories. Funny that something so simple as grep would
> prevent me from installing it, but I've been busy with the project I'm working
> on. Anyway, the new potato stuff has recursion in the grep, I did check that
> out...;-) I noticed they seperated the GNOME/E out into a special dev 'thang,
> which is good. I gotta have that...

Hmm. I never use recursion like that but

grep xxx `find . -type f` 

or so. Also allows much better control over the files processed.