Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

[John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>]

Gene writes:
> No, thats just grep being grep, it says that of ANY binary file it
> tries to read as text.

No, it says that of any binary file in which it finds a match.  You
don't want it to print out the "line" in the binary file where it found
the match because the "line" could be thousands of characters long.

>From the grep man page:

 -I     Process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data;
        this is equivalent to the --binary-files=without-match option.
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John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA