From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 7 5:37:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from umd5.umd.edu (umd5.umd.edu [128.8.10.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2987014E13 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 05:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from poirot.umd.edu (poirot.umd.edu [128.8.10.129]) by umd5.umd.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA28268; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:37:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by poirot.umd.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA10303; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:37:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: poirot.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:37:06 -0500 (EST) From: James Howard X-Sender: howardjp@poirot.umd.edu To: Max Khon Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep -a (-stable) In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Max Khon wrote: > 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? Get textproc/freegrep out of the ports collection. :) Let me know if you see any bugs. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message