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Title: GREP: strange behaviour of grep-2.3

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GREP: strange behaviour of grep-2.3
Applies to
SuSE Linux: Version 6.2
Symptom:
- grep displays unexpected behaviour
- If binary-files scanned by grep, the result is given as "found"
- grep doesn´t work with dvi-files
Cause:
The new behaviour of grep is not a bug, but a new feature of version 2.3. grep is now capable of scanning binary-files
without leaving the terminal "messy" (and having to do a reset).
Solution:
The old behaviour of grep can be triggered with the option ´-a´, so ´grep -a´ will function as it used to in
former versions.
There are many packages which use grep and in complicated cases it is advisable to downgrade grep to the older
version 2.2.
Procedure:

Keywords: GREP, UPDATE, 6.2, DVI, BUG

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SDB-sradmanic_grep23, Copyright SuSE GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
- Version: 13. Aug 1999
SuSE GmbH - Last generated: 07. Oct 1999 18:05:42
by maddin
with sdb_gen 1.00.0