retitle 267450 request to clarify the classification of "binary" files
severity 267450 minor
thanks
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:51:38PM +0200, Norman H. Azadian wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> Thanks for your email. Here's how fgrep is defined on my system:
>
> = cat /bin/fgrep
> #!/bin/sh
> exec grep -F ${1+"$@"}
>
> IMHO, it should look like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec grep -F ${1:+"$@"}
>
> Notice the colon inserted between the 1 and the +. I don't know what
> ${1+...} does because I can't find any documentation for it in the sh
> manpage.
I suspect that it is intentional [0]; I know that it is poorly
documented, too... I think it is defined this way for maximal
portability with old shells.
So I'm retitling this bug as a documentation problem regarding
classification of "binary" files.
Justin
[0] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html
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