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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I've made a new version of 'grep' available for download.  This updates
> the package to the latest version available from ftp.gnu.org.  I've
> included the update info from the /usr/doc/grep-2.5g/NEWS file below.
> 
> For a brief descripton of this package, see http://cygwin.com/packages/ .


Could we get grep to silently ignore directories? For example, if I grep "asdf" *
and there exists a directory called foo I see:

grep: foo: is a directory

I see there is a -d option and I can say -d skip. I guess what I'm asking for then is
to have -d default to skip instead of read.




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