Thanks to all and thanks for replying so fast. I must have somehow overlooked grep's -a option. Shame on me.
But I also knew that there *must* be command to just remove the 'garbage'; I just didn't know how to find out that 'strings' does it.
Good that one can always ask debian-user! Johannes --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]