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		larrik on July 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion option... The biggest problem I see is: who the heck would expect a .12 release to break compatibility in an ancient and solid piece of software?

sneak on July 26, 2012 [–]

Why is grep being modified at all? It is clearly not broken.

Aglet on July 26, 2012 | [–]

To quote a recent Coding Horror post, its bugs are now Common Law Features, and must be supported.

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