On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 06:42:56PM +0600, Max Khon wrote:
> it is not possible to make short equivalent for old grep -a option
> (as in grep 2.3 -a is used for other purposes).
> it is possible to make a long option (--skip-binary) but long options
> are quite unusable. GREP_OPTIONS cannot help much
> (I want an equiv. for old 'grep -aRl pattern .')
> any thoughts?
Talk to the GNU Grep maintainers. I told them such an option was needed
in GNU Grep and they said people *liked* the behavior of printing out a
match in binary files. I was especially saying with "-l" this behavior
us useless. Email them at Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Alain
Magloire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
See the archives of this list from 11/11/1999 - 11/12/1999 where this was
discussed. Are you new to -CURRENT, or were you just not reading this
list as you are suppose to?
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