Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 18:54:43 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.3 is now in 3.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20000102185443.B24637@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000102125211.A62593@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> References: <20000102125211.A62593@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:52:11PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Here is the list of changes made, that could cause a breakage: > > o The -a option behaves differently. Prior to that, it caused `grep' to > skip searching in binary files. Now, without -a option, when searching > a binary file FOO, `grep' just reports `Binary file FOO matches' instead > of outputting binary data. This is typically more useful than the old > behavior, and it is also more consistent with other GNU utilities like > `diff'. A file is considered to be binary if it contains a NUL (i.e. > zero) byte. The new -a or --text option causes `grep' to assume that > all input is text. (This option has the same meaning as with `diff'). > Use it if you want binary data in your output. The down side of this is if you used to use ``grep -al'' to only get a list of text files with hits, you can not duplicate this behavior with GNU grep 2.3. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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