Re: Grepping a Binary Input

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

What kind of binary stream. There is a flag for grep to tell it to treat 
a binary file as a particular type:

grep --binary-file=text Subject /var/spool/mail/mboxfile

will tell grep to read the mbox file as a plain text. Might also work when 
greping from stdin, but I've never tried it.

eks

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Travis Owens wrote:

> What tools/utils can I use to grep a binary stream from a redirect?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

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