Subject: Re: Recursive grep (where is limfree defined?)
To: None <greywolf@captech.com>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 01/24/1996 18:25:02
According to James Graham - Systems Mangler:
>
>See above.  Putting the example in the man page for find(1) might
>be useful; putting the example in the man page for grep(1) seems
>almost silly.
>

No sillier than putting how to copy directory trees in the tar man
page or how to copy filesystems using dump.  If people are going to,
logically, look in grep(1) for a way to do recursive greps then
putting the example there is the "right" place.  The man pages are
there to help people use the tools - showing people how to use the
tools efficiently would make the man page, IMHO, even better.  I know
I always appreciated the little examples in the tar(1) and dump(1) man
pages.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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