[PlanetCCRMA] grep having problems

[Mark Knecht]

On 10 Mar 2005 18:31:04 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:04, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    A strange thing has popped up on my Planet machine here:
> >
> > [mark@Godzilla mark]$ cat .bash_history | grep ssh
> > Binary file (standard input) matches
> > [mark@Godzilla mark]$
> >
> > It seems that either | or grep doesn't work anymore?
> >
> > What might I want to do to fix this?
> 
> Strange, I tried the same thing (in fc3) and for some reason
> .bash_history is being recognized as a binary file (instead of text). I
> would imagine that the "file" command is being used to clasify the input
> to grep (see "man file"). Did work in the expected way in rh9.
> 
> Anyway, a workaround would be to force grep to treat the file as text
> with the "-a" option.
> 
> -- Fernando

Thanks Fernando. -a works, but what changed? Not more than a week ago
(I think) it was working correctly. I presume there was some sort of
update I did?

Thanks,
Mark