Bug#498336: grep: option to filter non-printable characters from contents

Dear grep upstream authors, I'd like to forward this bug reported to debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498336 On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:07:33 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: … > > grep should have an option to filter non-printable characters from > the

Bug#498336: grep: option to filter non-printable characters from contents

Package: grep Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-6 Severity: wishlist grep should have an option to filter non-printable characters from the contents (file contents, but also filenames -- see bug #42630) *before coloring*. The values could be never, always and auto, like with --color. Such an option would be