Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:39:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> Cc: tstromberg@rtci.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection? Message-ID: <19991111233909.A60558@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199911120037.QAA06642@shade.twinsun.com>; from eggert@twinsun.com on Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 04:37:08PM -0800 References: <382B2711.E13A1CC8@rtci.com> <19991111132031.A60417@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911120037.QAA06642@shade.twinsun.com>
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> Please don't change the algorithm to deduce which files are binary.
> It was the subject of much design discussion in the GNU project, and
> is fairly consistent across other GNU applications.
Sounds reasonable.
> 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.
>
> I find it useful to see the names of all files matching the pattern.
Yes, but I find saying all binary files match a pattern, weird.
$ grep i /COPYRIGHT /kernel
/COPYRIGHT:All of the documentation and software included in the
..snip..
Binary file /kernel matches
Upto FreeBSD 4.0, we used Grep version 2.0 and added the "-a" which made
grep ignore binary files.
$ grep-2.0 -a i /COPYRIGHT /kernel
/COPYRIGHT:All of the documentation and software included in the
..snip..
I prefere this and it just seems right to ignore binary files. But its
not so bad since I can read the "Binary".
But using the "-l" flag will give:
$ grep -l i /COPYRIGHT /kernel
/COPYRIGHT
/kernel
which I find very misleading. Would it be possible to either ignore
binary files when "-l" is in affect. OR to add an ignore binary file
flag (like FreeBSD has in 2.x and 3.x)?
--
-- David (obrien@NUXI.com)
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