hi, there!
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Sheldon Hearn 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).
>
> Que? I've used grep -a since the update to grep 2.3 and haven't
> noticed any strange behaviour from the -a option.
>
> You wanna explain what's going on?
-stable grep (2.0 + FreeBSD-specific features) uses -a to skip binary
files at all. Very useful in such context as:
vi `grep -aRl foo .`
in -current both 'grep -al' and 'grep -l' print names of binary files
and there is no way to tell grep to skip them
/fjoe
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