[olug] Unix Tip: GREP TEXT NOT BINARY

[Trent Melcher]

Yes this works on most linux, but remember these are Unix tips, not Linux
tips.  The -I option does not work on most Unix systems unless you have
installed the GNU version of grep.

Then again that is why linux is so great.  Has all the extra options coded
in.

Trent



-----Original Message-----
From: olug-admin at olug.org [mailto:olug-admin at olug.org]On Behalf Of David
Walker
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:56 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: [olug] Unix Tip: GREP TEXT NOT BINARY


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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