Re: grep is always recursive

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:08:27AM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

The GNU option processor does not care where an option appears in the
command line which is a little odd and not what the documentation
suggests is the correct syntax. e.g. options come first before file
names, etc. Anything with a leading "-" is considered an option. Try
this sometime:

ls <file> -l <another_file>

It certainly seems counter-intuitive to me, if not potentially
dangerous. Imagine the accidental chaining of options with 'rm'.

In any case, there is one less mystery in the world!

--
Hal


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