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-rw-r--r--findutils/grep.c2
-rwxr-xr-xtestsuite/grep.tests20
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/findutils/grep.c b/findutils/grep.c
index f1b6dc6..b962138 100644
--- a/findutils/grep.c
+++ b/findutils/grep.c
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ static int grep_dir(const char *dir)
int matched = 0;
recursive_action(dir,
/* recurse=yes */ ACTION_RECURSE |
- /* followLinks=no */
+ /* followLinks=command line only */ ACTION_FOLLOWLINKS_L0 |
/* depthFirst=yes */ ACTION_DEPTHFIRST,
/* fileAction= */ file_action_grep,
/* dirAction= */ NULL,
diff --git a/testsuite/grep.tests b/testsuite/grep.tests
index 323b384..f6d9f21 100755
--- a/testsuite/grep.tests
+++ b/testsuite/grep.tests
@@ -171,6 +171,26 @@ testing "grep -w word match second word" \
"bword,word\n""wordb,word\n""bwordb,word\n" \
""
+# -r on symlink to dir should recurse into dir
+mkdir -p grep.testdir/foo
+echo bar > grep.testdir/foo/file
+ln -s foo grep.testdir/symfoo
+testing "grep -r on symlink to dir" \
+ "grep -r . grep.testdir/symfoo" \
+ "grep.testdir/symfoo/file:bar\n" \
+ "" ""
+rm -Rf grep.testdir
+
+# But -r on dir/symlink_to_dir should not recurse into symlink_to_dir
+mkdir -p grep.testdir/foo
+echo bar > grep.testdir/foo/file
+ln -s foo grep.testdir/symfoo
+testing "grep -r on dir/symlink to dir" \
+ "grep -r . grep.testdir" \
+ "grep.testdir/foo/file:bar\n" \
+ "" ""
+rm -Rf grep.testdir
+
# testing "test name" "commands" "expected result" "file input" "stdin"
# file input will be file called "input"
# test can create a file "actual" instead of writing to stdout