Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 07:13:23 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep -a (-stable) Message-ID: <19991207071323.A59056@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912071820330.70732-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>; from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru on Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 06:42:56PM %2B0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912071820330.70732-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
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On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 06:42:56PM +0600, Max Khon wrote: > 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? Talk to the GNU Grep maintainers. I told them such an option was needed in GNU Grep and they said people *liked* the behavior of printing out a match in binary files. I was especially saying with "-l" this behavior us useless. Email them at Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> and Alain Magloire <alainm@rcsm.ece.mcgill.ca>. See the archives of this list from 11/11/1999 - 11/12/1999 where this was discussed. Are you new to -CURRENT, or were you just not reading this list as you are suppose to? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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