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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:37:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep -a (-stable)
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95q.991207083536.31789A-100000@poirot.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912071820330.70732-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>

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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Max Khon wrote:

> hi, there!
> 
> 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?

Get textproc/freegrep out of the ports collection.  :)

Let me know if you see any bugs.

Jamie



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