rgrep? [was Re: [CLUE-Tech] xargs]

[Lynn Danielson]

Jed wrote:
> Lynn wrote:
> > Jed wrote:
> > > ... rgrep is certainly better.
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with rgrep.  It doesn't come with SuSE.
> > Is it being included with other distro's?  How is it 
> > different/better than the rest of the grep family?
> 
> Wot, no rgrep?! Those silly Deutschlanders.
> 
> rgrep is "recursive" grep. There are debs and RPMs for it. What does SuSE
> use?

Well, there is a "-R, -r, --recursive" switch for GNUs grep.

> Odd thing is I couldn't find an online manpage for it. Usually, one
> stumbles across man pages all over the place when googling for programs.
> Nor could I find the "official" maintainer web site for it.

I'm wondering if rgrep isn't simply an alias to "grep -r"?

Lynn