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,
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