Comment 0 for bug 1535458

I have a folder with a bunch of subfolder and several hundred or thousands files, most of them PHP files (obviously text).

I often use grep recursively, like this:
  $ grep -R somepattern *

Since the upgrade from 15.04 to 15.10, it often happens that a lot of text files are wrongly treated as binary. That means that, when a match is found, instead of getting the normal output which would show the file name and the matching line (with the matching substring highlighted), I get the bogus message:
  binary file whatever.php matches

Just to be clear: in one invocation of grep -R, I get mixed output with a lot of matches shown in the expected way and quit e a few matches shown in the wrong way, even though ALL matching files are text files.

This worked as expected before the upgrade from 15.04 and 15.10.

This is a HUGE issue that makes it impossible to do everyday developing work.

Until you fix it, please f***ing roll back grep to the previous version, because this sh** is unusable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: grep 2.21-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-23.28-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jan 18 22:43:51 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (829 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: grep
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2016-01-18 (0 days ago)