Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:04:44 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: grep 2.4a is now in the tree Message-ID: <20000118180444.A58470@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001181100220.64214-100000@penelope.skunk.org>; from Ben Rosengart on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:00:43AM -0500 References: <20000118120001.A60039@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001181100220.64214-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:00:43AM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > --binary-files='text' treats binary files as text > > (equivalent to -a or --text). > > So "-a" now does the opposite of what it used to do? > Not exactly. A stock grep 2.0 did not distinguish between binary and text files. So we (FreeBSD) added -a option, which caused grep to skip binary files. A stock grep 2.3 intoduced a stock -a option. By default, grep 2.3 prints a one-line message "Binary file FOO matches" (if it really matches). Grep 2.4 introduces a --binary-files option, which could be used to either 1) print a one-line message, if files matches; 2) treat the binary files as text files; 3) skip binary files. The equivalent to the old -a option is --binary-files=without-match. If you want this by default, you can hardcode it in GREP_OPTIONS environment variable. For a full story, see src/gnu/usr.bin/grep/NEWS. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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