On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 03:20:21PM +0100, Max Vozeler wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:07:10PM +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote: >> why strings? "grep -a" works since ages and saves one command. > The attached patch changes the script to use grep -a (which is not > in POSIX/SuSv3 or busybox grep, but should generally be available on > normal systems) I don't get the point of combining -a and -q; the effect of -a is that even if the file is binary, "lines" that match are printed on stdout. -q tells it not to output anything. So as far as I understand,"-a -q" is the same as "-q". Which is in SuSv3. -- Lionel - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
