Hello,
After upgrading to V2.21 I discovered that certain textfiles did not
yield any output after a grep search but the single line:
Binary file matches
Further tests showed, that grep only behaved this way with text
files that were encoded according to ISO-8859 (There may be more!).
The pres
text files, no matter what way they are encoded.
After all sed, vi, emacs, the works, do just that.
Yours,
hansp
On 11/30/2014 11:02 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
Hans Pelleboer wrote:
Binary file matches
Further tests showed, that grep only behaved this way with text
files that were encoded accordi
On 12/01/2014 07:52 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 11/30/2014 11:57 PM, Hans Pelleboer wrote:
I was wondering what can be done to compile grep in such a way,
that it processes all text files, no matter what way they are encoded.
You don't need to recompile; you can just use 'grep
Forwarded Message
Subject: Re: bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as
if they are binary
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:50:07 +0100
From: Hans Pelleboer
To: Bob Proulx
On 12/01/2014 08:45 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Hans Pelleboer wrote:
Paul Eggert
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Unicode. Given the current
state of affairs, nearly thirty years down the road, I do not share your
optimism that this issue
will be resolved in the next couple of years.
Hans Pelleboer
