Depending on the way you want to handle directories contents,

• " grep -d recurse " will do it (handling recursively directories), or
• "grep -d skip " (ignoring directories and their content).

You could have this be automatic, by adding it to ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc (one user) or /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc (all users)

• alias grep="/bin/grep -d skip"

Depending on the way you want to handle directories contents,

• grep -d recurse will do it (handling recursively directories), or
• grep -d skip (ignoring directories and their content).

You could have this be automatic, by adding it to ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc (one user) or /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc (all users)

alias grep="/bin/grep -d skip" 

Depending on the way you want to handle directories contents,

• " grep -d recurse " will do it (handling recursively directories), or
• "grep -d skip " (ignoring directories and their content).

Depending on the way you want to handle directories contents,

• " grep -d recurse " will do it (handling recursively directories), or
• "grep -d skip " (ignoring directories and their content).

You could have this be automatic, by adding it to ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc (one user) or /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc (all users)

• alias grep="/bin/grep -d skip"