>> GNU grep detects binary files by looking for a '\0' byte. I know this is not strictly Cygwin-specific but it _is_ generated by the preceding relevant recent comment in a busy thread:
Please can you tell me how to grep for an ASCII 00 (and for that matter anything from ASCII 1B to 1F, and 7F to FF)? (Or, I suppose in general for any of 00-FF though there's a "^A - ^Z" chunk at the beginning and a alphanumeric chunk in the middle, that are easily found by direct means.) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
