True, but maybe you can't tag the file due to lack of permissions. I don't understand the aversion to pipelines in Unix. Do you not use them at all in UNIX, or just not for this particular case? What's your plan if the encoding is an ASCII variant not supported with file tagging autoconversion?
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Thu, Apr 18, 2024, at 8:06 AM, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > I just used grep on a file tagged ISO8859 and it worked without using iconv. > > t ISO8859-1 T=on -rwxr-xr-x 1 XXXXXXX ZZZZZZZ 2618 Feb 20 08:21 > cleanvi > > >grep 'IBM' cleanvi > # Copyright 1996 IBM Corp. > # The following enclosed code is sample code created by IBM > # IBM product and is provided to you solely for the purpose > # IBM shall not be liable for any damages arising out of your > > I used both /bin/grep and /zopen/grep and both worked > > > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > Github: https://github.com/lbdyck > System Z Enthusiasts Discord: https://discord.gg/sze > > “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you > are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Itschak Mugzach > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 7:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: grep ascii files... > > Kirk, > > I want to directly grep ascii files instead of iconv first. > > ITschak > > *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere > Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux > and IBM I **| * > > *|* *Email**: [email protected] **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* > *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* > > > > > > בתאריך יום ה׳, 18 באפר׳ 2024 ב-15:37 מאת Kirk Wolf <[email protected]>: > > > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
