From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 31 10:29:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584A514D5A for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:29:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id UAA85511; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:28:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:28:30 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Will Andrews Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d Message-ID: <20000131202830.A82563@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , FreeBSD Current References: <20000131130229.E431@argon.blackdawn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <20000131130229.E431@argon.blackdawn.com>; from Will Andrews on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:02:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:02:29PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:54:00PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Under a big pressure from the FreeBSD community, GNU grep > > maintainers released grep-2.4d, which has a new option -I, > > a short equivalent to --binary-files='without-match'. > > Is this also equivalent to the old grep's -a option? I mean OLD grep, from > like 6 months ago? > Yes, that's why all this fuss have taken place ;=) > grep -a normally ignored binary files completely, back then. > It was a local FreeBSD feature; now it is part of the official GNU grep. -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message