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From: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:56:01 -0800
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Mark Blackburn wrote:
> If I type:
>    $ grep -e hello -r .
> I get:
>    grep: .: File exists
> and grep doesn't search the contents of any files

Data point: doesn't happen with the stock grep 2.5-1 on 1.3.17-1 on 
WinXP Pro SP1 (everything's the same except the OS). Works fine here.




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