Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:50:25 +0600 (NS) From: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep -a (-stable) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912071948440.76208-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.991207083536.31789A-100000@poirot.umd.edu>
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hi, there! On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, James Howard wrote: > > 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. :) I know about this beast. It would be nice if our out-of-box grep had this option. /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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