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Subject: bug#28306: grep: option to filter non-printable characters from contents
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Dear grep upstream authors,

I'd like to forward this bug reported to debian
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D498336

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:07:33 +0200 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN> wr=
ote:
=E2=80=A6
>=20
> grep should have an option to filter non-printable characters from
> the contents (file contents, but also filenames -- see bug #42630)
> *before coloring*. The values could be "never", "always" and "auto",
> like with --color.
>=20
> Such an option would be useful because:
>=20
> 1. The option --binary-files is a heuristic only; the user may want
>    to have more information on binary files anyway.
>=20
> 2. It is not even possible to write a wrapper script when coloring is
>    used, because after coloring, it is not possible (or at least very
>    difficult) to do the difference between escape sequences from grep
>    and those from the original contents.
>=20
> Such non-printable characters could be either replaced by some
> locale-specific replacement character or transcoded.
>=20
> I wonder whether filtering should be the default when the output
> is connected to a terminal (and when POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set).
> It would not be worse than the default --binary-files=3Dbinary.
=E2=80=A6

This option could be also useful to filter undesirable behaviors, such
as ringing the bell terminal (from stdin in this case):

    printf '\a'x | grep x

What's your position on this?

Thanks,

  -- Santiago

PS. As Vincent Lefevre says, this bug relates to filtering non-printable
characters from filenames:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D42630

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Santiago R.R. wrote:
> What's your position on this?

Sounds like a reasonable option, though I think I might make it another form of 
coloring rather than a separate option.

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