--- Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Julian Foad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I don't think the Grep manual should say
> explicitly how to do that
> > particular thing.
>
> I disagree. I think it'd be useful to have a simple
> pattern that
> tests for ASCII characters (i.e., bytes in the range
> 00 through 7F).
I had good results using the bash quoting.
Example: (find all lines containing bytes between 0x80
and 0xff)
$ grep [$'\x80'-$'\xFF'] *.txt
However the character 0x0 cannot be explicitly
specified for obvious argv reasons.
CLaudio
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