Hi Paul,
> The same idea would apply to other tools that
> want to do something special for binary versus
> text files.
The problem, as I'm sure you know, is that unix intentionally
does not differentiate ascii from binary files, and I'm not sure
the tools should either.
> If I type 'grep -rw 'open' *', I don't want to see
> all the strings containing 'open' in random *.o files
> that happen to be lying around
Why do you prefer
Binary file matches
over
[binary data]an occurence of open[binary data]
[binary data]another occurence of open[binary data]
The latter output is more in keeping with unix philosophy:
You asked to see occurrences of "open" in this file, so here
they are. If you don't want to see all those occurrences,
then type:
grep -r open * | fgrep -v '[binary data]'
mar
