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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
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Subject: Re: grep -a (-stable) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:48:08 +0600."
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On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:48:08 +0600, Max Khon wrote:

> in -current both 'grep -al' and 'grep -l' print names of binary files
> and there is no way to tell grep to skip them

Ah, so this isn't about -a, it's about -a in conjunction with -l.

Thanks for the clarification.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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