-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 10:45:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 01 October 2017 10:11:48 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 09:48:16AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > -I Process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data; > > > this is equivalent to the --binary-files=without-match option. > > > > > > Sure, thats supposed to tell me it will shut that #)^(&^$ noise off? > > > > [swahili] > > > > Let me respond in a similarly snarky way, will you? > > > > This option says "assume a binary file doesn't match in the first > > place. Don't even check". > > Izzat what that says? Why then does it not just say so?
Please go back and digest the quote I snipped for you (for the long option). Here a more focused snipped from that: --binary-files=TYPE If the first few bytes of a file indicate that the file contains binary data [...] By default, TYPE is binary, and grep normally outputs either a one-line message saying that a binary file matches [...] If TYPE is without-match, grep assumes that a binary file does not match [...] My English module masters this (and it is pretty old too. Moreover, it was a cheap second-hand one, labelled "for foreigners" ;-) Hey, the doc even contains the trigger phrase "binary file matches", which is how I found the spot in the docs. > My english reading module is fine. Out of date maybe, but hey, so is the > 60 lb Websters Dictionary we had in school in about 1942. They also > taught phonics back then, something the manpage writer may not have > taken since they quit teaching it in 1946 or so. :-) Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlnRAeUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaGggCeN7j9gWqYebJgnEjrCGg+nn2F FxEAn0HhpXDmqf1wXj5rEkFE268seGn1 =LZ4s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----