> grep: (standard input): binary file matches > you see, the \0 chars are already there. > What can I do?
Is there a reason you need grep in there? You can work around the issue by removing the grep completely and do the filtering with sed: add the "-n" (no default output) command-line option when calling sed, and the "p" (print) flag to the substitute command: sed -ne 's/.../.../p'
