From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 11 13:20:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10C814BED for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:20:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA63138; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA60550; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:20:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Thomas Stromberg Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection? Message-ID: <19991111132031.A60417@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <382B2711.E13A1CC8@rtci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <382B2711.E13A1CC8@rtci.com>; from tstromberg@rtci.com on Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:29:05PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:29:05PM -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > I just happened to notice this today. For some reason 'grep' seems to > think that 'set' output is binary, not text. Seems that GNU grep 2.3 is > a little too sensitive to text/binary detection. I've got a notion to change this. The -CURRENT grep is also very misleading w/ ``grep -l'' in that you will get "hits" on binary files because you can't see that "is a binary file" message to know better. The output of that message should be asked for with an option, not the default. I can't imagine how many people are going to get weird/eronious output from scripts now due to it. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message