Re: grep treating my text files as binary!

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

On 12/24/2014 05:45 AM, zzapper wrote:
> Binary file /c/intranet/note/note.html matches
> 
> file note.html
> note.html: HTML document, Non-ISO extended-ASCII text, with CRLF line 
> terminators
> 
> 
> I know I can iconv them but why is this suddenly happening I'm unaware of 
> changing any of my settings??

You upgraded grep.  This is an intentional change in behavior in the
newest grep.  Work around it by using 'grep -a' or 'LC_ALL=C grep'.

Basically, the POSIX definition of a binary file includes any file that
is encoded incorrectly for the current locale, and since your current
locale is (probably) UTF-8 encoding, any file (such as note.html) that
assumes some other encoding (probably Latin-1 8-bit encoding) will be
treated as binary unless you request -a or change locales.

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