Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection?

[David O'Brien]

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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
>    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    ([EMAIL PROTECTED])


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