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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:50:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alain Magloire <alainm@rcsm.ece.mcgill.ca>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
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:  <199911130050.TAA16385@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
In-Reply-To: <19991112090823.B87828@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Nov 12, 99 09:08:24 am

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Bonjour M. David O'Brien

> FreeBSD's previous grep had a "-a" flag to ignore binary files.  Thus I'm
> trying to find a replacement for the old ``grep -al'' usage.
> 
> > In the coming 2.4, if this is such problem for you, there is en environ
> > variable, that will restore the 2.0 behaviour(everything is text)
> 
> Not quite what I'm looking for.  I want a silent ignore of binary files.
> I think it should take an option to not ignore binary files.  Add 2.3's
> "-a" if you *really* want full greping of binary files.
> 

Thanks, for the clarifications.  It is  "dommage" (too bad ?) that
the changes were not sent back to gnu.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!


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