Re: stupid grep

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

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

Steve
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