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 ---- Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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