Re: [FWP] Grepping only text files

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 11:33:35AM -0700, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> 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).
> 

This makes no sense.  There is no reason why you could use "not -B", but
could not use "-T".

Ronald

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