[olug] Unix Tip: GREP TEXT NOT BINARY

[David Walker]

Or "grep -I <string> . -r" will work

  -I                        equivalent to --binary-files=without-match

On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:02 pm, (Via wrote:
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> GREP TEXT NOT BINARY
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> In some directories such as /etc you have a mix of file types.
> You may want to grep out a string from one of the files but
> don't want to worry about the binaries, data, etc.  To accomplish
> this, searching only text files do this:
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> grep <string> `file * | egrep 'script|text' | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
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