Re: grep --dont-read-devices-or-symlinks

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17.06.2005, at 17:39, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :find attached a patch to grep to only read real files, ignoring 
> symlinks,
> :devices, etc.(-O --only-files). I felt I need this for grepping my 
> /src/sys
> :which also contains some compile/* directories where modules produce 
> recurs=
> :ive
> :loops...
>     Well, there is at least one issue with this.  I'm not sure the 
> option is
>     general enough.  e.g. perhaps it should not avoid symlinks.  I'd 
> use
>     stat() rather then lstat() at the very least.

the main purpose of this is to avoid symlinked directories, but I 
thought going a little bit more general and ignoring anything 
non-regular would be better in the end.

>     Grep isn't realliy the best utility to search an entire hierarchy.
>     I would use a comnation of find with the -exec option to write
>     a search script.

For sophisticated stuff yes, but I just wanted a quick hack to "just 
grep -Or /sys $foo"

cheers
  simon

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