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

[David Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
[...]
> 
> Wot, no rgrep?! Those silly Deutschlanders.
> 
> rgrep is "recursive" grep. There are debs and RPMs for it. What does SuSE
> use?
> 
> 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.

Huh?  My debian testing system shows rgrep to be part of the grep 
package.  It's actually just a shell script for grep -r and this grep is 
grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2.  The man page just gives the page for grep(1).

Seems kind of silly when we already had find.  FWIW.

Dave