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[bug #34020] RFE: Improve handling of sparse files
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Paul Eggert |
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[bug #34020] RFE: Improve handling of sparse files |
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Date: |
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:01:10 +0000 |
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Follow-up Comment #2, bug #34020 (project grep):
How about the following idea instead (it is simpler
and should be more efficient too):
Change 'grep' so that by default it ignores all NULs
in binary input files. POSIX allows this behavior, and it
is typically far more useful than what grep does now.
People who really want to examine the NULs can use
the -a option as before.
If we see a file with holes, treat it as binary, and
ignore the holes by default.
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