On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 09:13:54PM -0500, Alain Magloire wrote:
> Of course, you can. But I will join my voice to Paul and ask you not to.
> This behaviour was a long standing request/grip where for example one
> would do
>
> grep pattern *
>
> and have the terminal going bananas, if pattern was detected in binary
What I was proposing to change was that binary files were ignored when
"-l" was in affect. I was also implying that binary files should be
silently ignored unless one uses the 2.3 "-a" flag.
> I don't follow your logic for '-l'. whether it is grep-2.0 or grep-2.3
> They all show the filename containing a matching pattern.
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.
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-- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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