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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 1998 05:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gnu/6965: grep -a dosn't work
Message-ID:  <199806161220.FAA25806@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR gnu/6965; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To: andrew@ugh.net.au, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:  Subject: Re: gnu/6965: grep -a dosn't work
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:10:37 +0300

 On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:34:32PM +1000, andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:
 > 
 > grep -a -R mt * flashed my terminal, even though it shouldn't have searched
 > binary files. I had a look at the source to grep to see how it determined which 
 > files were binary and it seemed fine so I dont offer a solution...just a 
 > complaint :-) Hopefully someone out there will no how to fix it. I guess I'll
 > just have to avoid binary files prefaced by 32 prinatble characters :-)
 > 
 
 I was unable to reproduce this on my -stable system:
 
 # file `grep -a -l -R Id /usr/bin`
 /usr/bin/cvsbug:     Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/zgrep:      Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/zegrep:     Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/zfgrep:     Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/apropos:    Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/whatis:     Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/makewhatis: perl commands text
 /usr/bin/catman:     perl commands text
 /usr/bin/rcsfreeze:  Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/send-pr:    Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/sendbug:    Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/cpp:        Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/groups:     Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/whoami:     Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/keyinfo:    setuid a /usr/bin/suidperl script text
 /usr/bin/killall:    perl commands text
 /usr/bin/mkdep:      Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/pagesize:   Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/whereis:    perl commands text
 /usr/bin/which:      perl commands text
 /usr/bin/lp:         Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/ibcs2:      Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/joy:        Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/linux:      Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/qcam:       Bourne shell script text
 /usr/bin/c89:        Bourne shell script text
 
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