On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 05:23:47PM -0700, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > Your post prompted me to read the grep man page. I found the following in > the grep man page that comes with a fairly recent version of Cygwin. > > -r, --recursive > Read all files under each directory, recursively; > this is equivalent to the -d recurse option. > > Has this option always been there and I've simply been ignorant of it for > the past 10 years or did it get added recently? Perhaps its always been in > the GNU/Linux version of grep but not in the commercial versions available > on Solaris and HPUX? I have started using Linux about 5 years ago... so I don't remember it being added. Solaris or HP-UX greps don't have that option. Also GNU diff is much better than the original diff. Of course I have downloaded and installed GNU at work.. florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4