Hey.
Maybe this is no a bug at all due grep rather being focused on text
files and 0x0 being special anyway, but just for your information:
$ hd test-with-0x00-and-0x02
66 6f 6f 0a 62 61 72 0a 7a 65 02 00 0a 62 61 7a |foo.bar.ze...baz|
0010 0a 7a 65 72 00 0a 65 6e 64 0a
On Sun, 2021-11-07 at 16:37 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/File-and-Directory-Selection.html
>
> and look for --binary-files. You can use 'grep -a' to pay more
> attention
> to binary data.
Well I've had seen that, but why is 0x00 different from 0x
On Sun, 2021-11-07 at 23:20 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> POSIX says text files cannot contain NUL bytes. They can contain 0x02
> bytes, though.
Well yes, that' clear... but at least the console output in the 0x02
case seems to imply that grep already considers it binary (and not text
file).
So I th
