Re: [Mingw-msys] msys' grep -r doesn't work (djgpp's does)

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Please give the output of ``msysinfo all'' and the output of ``which 
grep''.  You must have an environment issue as ``grep -r'' hasn't been a 
problem.

Earnie

Suresh Govindachar wrote:

>Hello,
>
>This concerns the grep (GNU grep 2.4.2) which came 
>with MSYS-1.0.10.  The grep 2.4 from djgpp does 
>not have the following problem which msys' grep has: 
>
>The command 'grep -r string *' searches only 
>the files in the current directory -- it does not
>search inside subdirectories;  instead, it complains
>about 'permission denied':
>
>  GREP: expt: Permission denied
>
>But I am on Windows 98, with no restrictions on permissions.
>Also, changing the command to 'grep -r string */*' 
>searches one level of subdirectories and complains about
>permissions for going deeper;  and 'grep -r string */*/*' 
>searches two levels of subdirectories and complains about
>permissions for going deeper;  etc.
>
>Overwriting /bin/grep.exe with djgpp's grep.exe is not a
>solution since djgpp's grep.exe needs a certain directory
>structure to run!!! 
>
>Please let me know if there is a version of msys' grep.exe
>that I can use to overwrite the one in /bin.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Suresh
>  
>
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