Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 01 October 2017 03:34:19 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 01:28:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > > > Assuring that my port is not in this IANA list is not enough to >> > > > ensure that my port number will not clash with a port number >> > > > used by a Debian package (by default). >> > > > >> > > > So your answer to my question is wrong. >> > >> > In which case debian should publish the unlisted ports they do use, >> > if for no other reason than to "stake a claim". >> >> "Debian" "should". Gene, you "should" know better ;-) >> >> Want to start with it? Write a script which scans the /etc files in >> all Debian packages for network configurations. >> > That might be possible IF you wanted to use a tool like grep, but in 30 > years I've not found a way to silence the "binary file matches" messages > from grep. [...]
`grep -a` will force grep to treat a file (regardless of data) as ascii text. Beware that a truely binary file will spit out the whole thing. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281