Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Gene Heskett wrote on 07/01/16 01:35:
> On Thursday 30 June 2016 19:25:37 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 
<snip>
> No, thats just grep being grep, it says that of ANY binary file it tries 
> to read as text.  I have spent days pouring over the manpages for grep, 
> looking for a option to feed it to make grep quit that, simply because 
> its so verbose that what you are looking for can get lost in its 
> blathering about that.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
Is 'grep -rI /etc' doing what you want? The switch "-I" should "process a binary
file as if it did not contain matching data".

Regards,
jvp.