From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 12 7:21:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED51514EE1 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:21:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA66723; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:21:00 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Paul Eggert Cc: tstromberg@rtci.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection? Message-ID: <19991112072100.F63337@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <382B2711.E13A1CC8@rtci.com> <19991111132031.A60417@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911120037.QAA06642@shade.twinsun.com> <19991111233909.A60558@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911120811.AAA09655@green.twinsun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <199911120811.AAA09655@green.twinsun.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:11:22AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:39:10 -0800 > From: "David O'Brien" > > Would it be possible to either ignore binary files when "-l" is in > affect. OR to add an ignore binary file flag (like FreeBSD has in > 2.x and 3.x)? > > The latter sounds reasonable, though it'd have to be spelled > differently from -a since -a is now taken. Perhaps > --skip-binary-files, by analogy with the existing --directories=skip > option? The BSD's favor one letter options. At the time -a was not used for anything. Is there a letter we could use today? I used -a almost all the time, so typing "--skip-binary-files" would have been unacceptable. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message