Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:21:00 -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: <19991112072100.F63337@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199911120811.AAA09655@green.twinsun.com> References: <382B2711.E13A1CC8@rtci.com> <19991111132031.A60417@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911120037.QAA06642@shade.twinsun.com> <19991111233909.A60558@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911120811.AAA09655@green.twinsun.com>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:11:22AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:39:10 -0800 > From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> > > 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)? > > The latter sounds reasonable, though it'd have to be spelled > differently from -a since -a is now taken. Perhaps > --skip-binary-files, by analogy with the existing --directories=skip > option? The BSD's favor one letter options. At the time -a was not used for anything. Is there a letter we could use today? I used -a almost all the time, so typing "--skip-binary-files" would have been unacceptable. -- -- 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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