> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:45:28PM +0200, dexen deVries wrote: > > please pardon the silly question, but... how about piping the binary data > > through xd(1) before sending it to regexp(3)? > > > > Because it will work only for some cases, since newlines and formatting > come in the picture and it still imposes to have regexp rune compatible, > i.e. not every sequence is allowed it has to be an UTF-8 compatible one.
can you give an example of xd outputting something that's not a rune? - erik
