[ale] Re: grep bug?

[eliz at is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii)]

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Linux Idiot wrote:

> Just upgraded to RedHat 5.0 about two months ago and noticed unusual
> behavior with grep.  It no longer complains about non-existent files or
> attemped execution against a directory.  The directory issue doesn't
> bother me so much, but if there's a typo in the file name, you never now
> as grep returns silently.

This is corrected in the latest version 2.2 of Grep, available from the 
GNU FTP sites.