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bug#29668: grep patches for "Binary file FOO matches" glitches


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#29668: grep patches for "Binary file FOO matches" glitches
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:58:58 -0700
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On 9/17/20 3:03 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
The alternative is to change that "B" to a "b", which should be fine,
now that it's only emitted to stderr.

Makes sense.

NEWS should be updated accordingly - but when I looked into doing that I came up with the attached more-elaborate patch, which changes this new diagnostic and two other unusual-format diagnostics, so that they use the same "grep: FILENAME: MESSAGE" form that grep uses everywhere else. Whaddya think?

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