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diff --git a/share/man/man1/grepc.1 b/share/man/man1/grepc.1 index 8785020..eb79522 100644 --- a/share/man/man1/grepc.1 +++ b/share/man/man1/grepc.1 @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ and word boundaries are implicitly added to it in most cases. If no .I file is given, -the program reads the standard input. +nonrecursive searches read standard input, +and recursive searches examine the working directory. .SS Types of code This program can search for several types of code. The following arguments can be passed to the @@ -143,6 +144,14 @@ instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have been printed. Each file is only printed once. .TP +.B \-r +Recursive search. +If an input file is a directory, +read all files under such directory, recursively, +without following symbolic links. +This is useful even if specific files are specified in the command line +as it enables certain optimizations that cannot be enabled in filter mode. +.TP .BI \-t " type" Restrict the search to a specific .I type |