From 8481d1fea65dc03ced81d8c82b53a30175f4b9f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:28:54 +0000
Subject: clarify what -a does; prod and ok deraadt@

---
 usr.bin/grep/grep.1 | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'usr.bin/grep')

diff --git a/usr.bin/grep/grep.1 b/usr.bin/grep/grep.1
index 0501945dbc8..a7d64d6722c 100644
--- a/usr.bin/grep/grep.1
+++ b/usr.bin/grep/grep.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: grep.1,v 1.29 2004/10/04 21:34:17 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: grep.1,v 1.30 2005/01/06 00:28:53 jmc Exp $
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ and
 options.
 .It Fl a
 Treat all files as ASCII text.
+Normally
+.Nm
+will simply print
+.Dq Binary file ... matches
+if files contain binary characters.
+Use of this option forces
+.Nm
+to output lines matching the specified pattern.
 .It Fl B Ar num
 Print
 .Ar num
-- 
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