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RE: Grep & recursion
- To: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz at cris dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Grep & recursion
- From: "Ronald Landheer" <info at rlsystems dot net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:46:41 +0200
Hello Randall, Larry /et al/
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> I cannot replicate your results when invoking grep as you indicate
> from a Cygwin BASH shell. There is an extensive directory structure
> and there were in fact many files with the pattern "foo" but the
> diagnostic about "Permission denied" on directories never appeared.
<snip>
> grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
<snip>
> BASH_VERSION=$'2.05.0(8)-release'
<snip>
> WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195
The only difference seems to be in the version of Windows..
Larry Hall wrote:
> Dunno. You'll have to debug it to find out. Personally, the
> complaints about the directory aren't that surprising to me, although
> they are of little value. I personally wouldn't mind seeing the
> behavior you describe for the DJGPP version with the Cygwin version,
> if you're willing to track down the issue and supply a patch.
I guess I'll have to do that, then :) I do have the source, so I'll have
a look.. (I'd just hoped this was a known issue to someone on the list.)
Greetz!
Ronald
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