| Summary: | Inconsistent behavior between the program and its man page bsdgrep(1) | ||||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | WHR <msl0000023508> | ||||||
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||||
| Status: | New --- | ||||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | emaste, kevans, mizhka, msl0000023508 | ||||||
| Priority: | --- | Keywords: | patch | ||||||
| Version: | CURRENT | ||||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||||
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Created attachment 204352 [details]
bsdgrep-fix-manpage.diff
Created attachment 204353 [details]
bsdgrep-fix-program.diff
The attached 2 patches could fix the program or the man page. |
The man page bsdgrep(1) says the program won't follow any symbolic links when performing recursive search (with option '-r' or '-R'). But it follows! (try it!) From the man page: -O If -R is specified, follow symbolic links only if they were explicitly listed on the command line. The default is not to follow symbolic links. ... -p If -R is specified, no symbolic links are followed. This is the default. ... -R, -r, --recursive Recursively search subdirectories listed. -S If -R is specified, all symbolic links are followed. The default is not to follow symbolic links. This seems indicating that the option '-p' was the default, however the actual default was '-S', according to the source code (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/grep/grep.c?revision=334806&view=markup#l126).