Re: stupid grep

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> Cloudmaster said:
> > Nope.  Darn it.  So, anyone know what's causing that?  I know I can do stuff
> > like use '-a' or '--text' - but what in the heck would cause grep to
> > suddenly stop properly identifying text files?  Y2K.5?  Lunar misalignment?  
> > Crazy electroluminescent monkies?  Me?
> 
> There are probably some non-ASCII (8-bit) characters in the log.  From
> what I understand (and I haven't looked at the code, so don't quote
> me), the logic to detect binary files isn't all that smart.
> 
> Just for fun, you should see what perl says...
> 
>     perl -le 'print(-T(shift) ? "text" : "binary");' /var/log/messages

sauer@pyro:~ > perl -le 'print(-T(shift) ? "text" : "binary");' /var/log/messages
text

Huh.  Perhaps I'll look into something that will find a non-ascii char when
I'm not so tired...

--Danny, who might just 'alias grep="grep -a"', since he doesn't grep
binaries often :)


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