From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 12 16:19:47 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 18E0314DBB for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:19:41 -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 QAA69819; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA62831; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:19:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:19:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Paul Eggert Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection? Message-ID: <19991112161931.A90421@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19991111132031.A60417@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911120213.VAA06622@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA> <19991112090823.B87828@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911122339.PAA07222@shade.twinsun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199911122339.PAA07222@shade.twinsun.com>; from eggert@twinsun.com on Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:39:43PM -0800 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 Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:39:43PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:08:24 -0800 > From: "David O'Brien" > > I want a silent ignore of binary files. > > It'd be reasonable to add an option to do this, after the feature > freeze is over and 2.4 comes out. Cool! :-) Would you able to reserve the option's letter and GNU-style long name now? I'd like to add this feature to GNU Grep 2.3 in FreeBSD. Is there an alpha of 2.4 available anywhere? I wouldn't mind adding the environmental vars support to our 2.3 also. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message