Subject: Re: Suggestion: keep binary data out of /etc
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
List: current-users
Date: 02/05/1999 17:17:52
simonb@telstra.com.au (Simon Burge) writes:

>The current version of GNU grep by default doesn't print binary when it
>gets a match.  On an Ultrix box with GNU grep 2.2c:

>	balrog:~ 6> grep ULTRIX /bin/echo
>	Binary file /bin/echo matches

>I'll look into upgrading our GNU grep (currently 2.0) to the latest
>version.

Gack!

If you do this, please make it *not* the default.

This falls into my "If I want to use Windows I know where to find it"
category.

-- 
Christoph Badura

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