Re: Grepping a Binary Input

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:04, Travis Owens wrote:
> What tools/utils can I use to grep a binary stream from a redirect?
> Thanks!

Try strings ... e.g.,
  command | strings | grep -i whatever

Strings will filter out anything that is non-text.


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