[FWP] Grepping only text files

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@rev.net>]

>From vlb@cfcl.com  Tue Jun 29 09:29:13 1999 - sorry for the delay]
Message-Id: <199906291619.MAA03774@mercury.rev.net>
Organization: Roanoke Electronic Village

I can't exactly figure out why [Unix] grep has never had a command
line switch [if not the default!] only to scan text files.  I use the
following:

exec ("grep" , grep  { not -B ; }  @ARGV) ;

This is pretty crude with only one redeeming feature [aside from its
utility!]: the test has to be "not -B" -- "-T" won't do because it
depends on the [fairly likely?] fact that the numerous and largely
unparseable command-line options for grep will not collide with the
names of binary files in the current directory (and at least as a
practical-perl matter, it works for me).

  /Bernie\
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Bernie Cosell                   Roanoke Electronic Village
mailto:bernie@rev.net           Roanoke, VA

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