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		lubutu on July 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion option... In POSIX -R is the recursion flag for ls, cp, rm, etc. So if you want to recurse, -R is probably a safer bet than -r. (ls -r just lists in reverse.)

buster on July 26, 2012 | [–]

Yeah, that may be it.. I'm wondering why they didn't just add a new option (aka --no-symlinks) or something

a3_nm on July 26, 2012 | | [–]

Annoying exception: scp only accepts -r as recursion flag, not -R.

wildmXranat on July 26, 2012 | | [–]

Same here. I've been conditioned to use -R

mturmon on July 26, 2012 | | [–]

Good point. Also, since you reminded me, chmod, chown, chgrp.

leif on July 26, 2012 | [–]

that's probably it

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