Behold the power of Unix pipelines: $ iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 myasciifile | grep MATCH
iconv is not "first converting" the the whole file to EBCDIC since both iconv and grep run at the same time :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Thu, Apr 18, 2024, at 4:03 AM, ITschak Mugzach wrote: > Is there any command to grep ascii files without the need to first convert > them to ebcdic (iconv -f)? > > ITschak > > ITschak Mugzach > *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring > for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
