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bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary
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Kamil Dudka |
Subject: |
bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary |
Date: |
Tue, 12 May 2015 10:41:53 +0200 |
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On Monday 11 May 2015 21:27:35 Paul Eggert wrote:
> Perhaps we can improve the behavior of grep by changing its heuristic
> slightly. Currently grep reports "Binary file FOO matches" if it finds
> binary data in FOO before it finds the first match. Instead, perhaps we
> could change grep to report "Binary file FOO matches" when it sees that
> it's about to generate binary *output* copied from FOO, regardless of
> whether this output represents the first match. That is, when grep sees
> that it's about to output binary data, grep instead outputs "Binary file
> FOO matches" and then stops output for FOO (even if it already output some
> lines for ordinary matches in FOO).
>
> This approach would fix the problem of grep trashing the output stream, and
> it should be less drastic than grep's current approach, in that it would
> make grep more likely to do what Kamil Dudka is asking for (assuming grep
> is given mostly valid input interspersed with small amounts of binary
> data).
Thanks for the suggestion! I believe that such approach would work for me.
Do you want me to write a patch implementing it?
Eric, what do you think about the change proposed above?
Kamil
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Sebastian Poehn, 2015/05/07
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Paul Eggert, 2015/05/07
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Sebastian Pöhn, 2015/05/07
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Eric Blake, 2015/05/07
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Kamil Dudka, 2015/05/11
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Paul Eggert, 2015/05/12
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary,
Kamil Dudka <=
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Eric Blake, 2015/05/12
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Paul Eggert, 2015/05/12
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Ángel González, 2015/05/20
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Paul Eggert, 2015/05/07
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Sebastian Poehn, 2015/05/08
- bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Paul Eggert, 2015/05/08
bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary, Johannes Meixner, 2015/05/08