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Why does grep give binary file matches?
By Sumesh Murali posted Jul 01, 2014 02:47 AM. Normally, if the first few bytes of a file indicate that the file contains binary data, grep outputs only a message saying that the file matches the pattern. To force the file to be treated as text, use the -a (or –text) option.
Does grep search binary files?
By default, TYPE is binary, and grep normally outputs either a one-line message saying that a binary file matches, or no message if there is no match. If TYPE is without-match, grep assumes that a binary file does not match; this is equivalent to the -I option.
Is syslog a binary file?
Manually grepping syslog returned the “Binary file syslog matches” message. This translates to grep considering syslog to be a binary file.
What happens if a binary file does not match in grep?
By default, TYPE is binary, and grep normally outputs either a one-line message saying that a binary file matches, or no message if there is no match. If TYPE is without-match, grep assumes that a binary file does not match; this is equivalent to the -I option.
What’s the difference between Grep and grep 2.21?
Pipe it through strings, which will strip out all of the binary code leaving just the text. Starting with Grep 2.21, binary files are treated differently: When searching binary data, grep now may treat non-text bytes as line terminators. This can boost performance significantly.
How to get normal grep output from Bash?
Grep ‘binary file matches’. How to get normal grep output? [duplicate] Closed 4 years ago. I’ve got a grep script that searches through a directory recursively.
Is there any way to get normal grep?
However the results I get are the following. Notice there are found matches in JPGs but no actual result. Is there any way to see the result in the output like a normal grep search? for short. This is equivalent to –binary-files=text and it should show the matches in binary files.