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From: Jeff Mincy <mincy AT rcn DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:27:16 -0500
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.5g
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:09:50PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>Could we get grep to silently ignore directories?  For example, if I
>>grep "asdf" * and there exists a directory called foo I see:
>>
>>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.
> 
> Contact the grep developers. I'm sure you can find an appropriate mailing list
> here http://www.gnu.org/prep/mailinglists.html .

This request can be trivially handled with an alias in .bashrc.
  alias grep="grep -d skip"

-jeff


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