Recursion with grep?

[Francisco Reyes]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, parv wrote:

> in message <20031113223951.X85161 at zoraida.natserv.net>,
> wrote Francisco J Reyes thusly...
> >
> > Do we want something like:
> > grep -r <string> *.c
>
> I do not know about anybody else, i myself like to keep the current
> behaviour for -r option.


Several people have expressed a simmilar sentiment, but I don't quite
understand why.

As it stands grep can't recurse and search only certain files. I can only
imagine how many time this probably has shown up on this and many other
lists.

After all if you can do
grep <some text> *.c

The logical thing is to expect the following to work
grep -r <some text> *.c