On 09/25/2015 11:54 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, at 20:02, Paul Eggert wrote:
Thanks for the bug report. This appears to be basically the same as
Bug#20526.
Well, not quite. That grep will see misencoded files as binary data,
I understand. But what perplexed me is that
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, at 20:02, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report. This appears to be basically the same as
> Bug#20526.
Well, not quite. That grep will see misencoded files as binary data,
I understand. But what perplexed me is that grep would *sometimes*
see the piped data as b
Thanks for the bug report. This appears to be basically the same as
Bug#20526. An idea to fix it in a deterministic way was proposed here:
http://bugs.gnu.org/20526#35
and this seems to have been received positively, but nobody has had the
time to implement it yet. In the meantime I'll merg
Hi,
When piping a certain diff into grep-2.21, it sometimes thinks
it is a binary file, and sometimes treats it as text. The latter
behaviour is expected and desired. I think grep should never
consider standard input to be binary.
For lack of a simple recipe, here is the actual use case:
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