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grep 3.0 skips "binary" lines in ssconvert output

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alexey Shipunov <dactylorhiza <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25749 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25749: grep 3.0 skips "binary" lines in ssconvert output
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:07:46 -0800

On 02/16/2017 10:10 AM, Alexey Shipunov wrote:
> I wonder how much work would require to invent new option, saying
> --binary-text-strict which will cause grep to stop with error and do
> not output anything...

Something like that shouldn't be hard, although "do not output anything" 
is too simple, as we can't expect grep to make two passes through the 
whole input, which means that it could already have output something 
before it discovers the encoding error.

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