grep: fix word-regexp at the beginning of lines

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 6aae09a22e54a7b9291ed1b6acf79529c6029a49..0e6b752cd5833bfb970619983b4efa880aaaf134 100644 (file)
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ static int get_dtype(struct dirent *de, const char *path)
  */
 static int read_directory_recursive(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *path, const char *base, int baselen, int check_only, const struct path_simplify *simplify)
 {
-       DIR *fdir = opendir(path);
+       DIR *fdir = opendir(*path ? path : ".");
        int contents = 0;
 
        if (fdir) {