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grep: Fatal problem with (big) file

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 33552 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 29668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pg <pasi.vitsa <at> yahoo.com>, Jason Franklin <jrf <at> elitemail.org>
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?

[0001-grep-be-more-consistent-about-diagnostic-format.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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