Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 02:56:19 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Another grep question Message-ID: <1667502496.20050208025619@wanadoo.fr>
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Does anyone know why grep -R "\0x93" /www/htdocs turns up only binary files, even when I know there are text files in the directory that contain this character? Is there something special about the way I specify the search string that causes grep to behave differently? When I specify an 8-bit character like this alone for a search, it finds only binary files, even though this is a text character--as if it is looking at the search string and deciding that I want to search only binary files. The man page doesn't seem to say anything about this. Is it my imagination? -- Anthony
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