On Sunday 01 October 2017 10:55:33 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > 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 [...]
And that, while lots more typing, seems to duplicate the -I option. > My English module masters this (and it is pretty old too. Moreover, it > was a cheap second-hand one, labelled "for foreigners" ;-) > Chuckle... It is working very well, too. And I thank you for taking the trouble to learn a language you didn't often hear growing up. Had I stayed in school, the language class choices then were Latin and French. But TBT, I didn't stick around, I had an allergy problem which turned out to be milk when it was finally found, and my algebra teacher was more interested in off-color standup comedy than in teaching algebra, so in 1948 there was a job market for tv repairmen, so I quit and went to work. Fixing these new-fangled things they called tv sets. I was 14. So I was a geek before the word was invented. :) But now I'm an just old geezer that can regale you with stories about some of the BTDT's I've done. :) And I've learned something useful today, thanks to you and Reco. > 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 Out of date maybe, but hey, so 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 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>