Gene writes: > No, thats just grep being grep, it says that of ANY binary file it > tries to read as text.
No, it says that of any binary file in which it finds a match. You don't want it to print out the "line" in the binary file where it found the match because the "line" could be thousands of characters long. >From the grep man page: -I Process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data; this is equivalent to the --binary-files=without-match option. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA