Gene Heskett wrote on 07/01/16 01:35: > On Thursday 30 June 2016 19:25:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > <snip> > No, thats just grep being grep, it says that of ANY binary file it tries > to read as text. I have spent days pouring over the manpages for grep, > looking for a option to feed it to make grep quit that, simply because > its so verbose that what you are looking for can get lost in its > blathering about that. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > Is 'grep -rI /etc' doing what you want? The switch "-I" should "process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data".
Regards, jvp.
