Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:20:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Apr 2004 15:20:22.0515 (UTC) FILETIME=[ADC91430:01C41BEA] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of fergus > Sent: 06 April 2004 14:10 > >> GNU grep detects binary files by looking for a '\0' byte. > > I know this is not strictly Cygwin-specific but it _is_ > generated by the > preceding relevant recent comment in a busy thread: > > Please can you tell me how to grep for an ASCII 00 grep .* filename | grep "Binary file .* matches" will kinda do that! >(and for > that matter > anything from ASCII 1B to 1F, and 7F to FF)? Trickier. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/