Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:39:43 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: alainm@rcsm.ece.mcgill.ca, tstromberg@rtci.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection? Message-ID: <199911122339.PAA07222@shade.twinsun.com> In-Reply-To: <19991112090823.B87828@dragon.nuxi.com> (obrien@freebsd.org) References: <19991111132031.A60417@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911120213.VAA06622@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA> <19991112090823.B87828@dragon.nuxi.com>
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:08:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> I want a silent ignore of binary files. It'd be reasonable to add an option to do this, after the feature freeze is over and 2.4 comes out. I think it should take an option to not ignore binary files. I disagree. If I type `grep pattern file' and get no output, then I should be able to conclude that there are no instances of `pattern' in `file'. But under your proposal, I wouldn't be able to conclude that: all I would know is that either the file contained no instances, or the file was binary. This is confusing and is less useful in practice than grep 2.3's behavior. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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