On Monday 07 February 2005 05:56 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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?
I made a text file named test.log containing: aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD grep -R "\0x93" /www/htdocs aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD aj[[CFPWJJVCVMLKFD the result of: grep -R "\0x93" test.log is: grep -R "\0x93" /www/htdocs Maybe you should test again???? -Mike _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
