From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 12 16:50: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from spock2.ECE.McGill.CA (Spock2.ECE.McGill.CA [132.206.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B4E14C2A; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:49:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alainm@macs.ece.mcgill.ca) Received: from mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA (alainm@Mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA [132.206.63.174]) by spock2.ECE.McGill.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15508; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:50:54 -0500 (EST) From: Alain Magloire Received: by mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA (8.8.8) id TAA16385; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:50:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199911130050.TAA16385@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA> Subject: Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection? To: obrien@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:50:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: tstromberg@rtci.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <19991112090823.B87828@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Nov 12, 99 09:08:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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