From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 7 4:43:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C104E14E2D for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 04:43:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from localhost (fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA72225 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:42:56 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:42:56 +0600 (NS) From: Max Khon To: current@freebsd.org Subject: grep -a (-stable) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, there! it is not possible to make short equivalent for old grep -a option (as in grep 2.3 -a is used for other purposes). it is possible to make a long option (--skip-binary) but long options are quite unusable. GREP_OPTIONS cannot help much (I want an equiv. for old 'grep -aRl pattern .') any thoughts? /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message