Another grep question

[Giorgos Keramidas]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Does anyone know why
> 
> grep -R "\0x93" /www/htdocs
> 
> turns up only binary files, even when I know there are text
> files in the directory that contain this character?  Is
> there something special about the way I specify the search
> string that causes grep to behave differently?  When I
> specify an 8-bit character like this alone for a
> search, it finds only binary files, even though this is a text
> character--as if it is looking at the search string and
> deciding that I want to search only binary files.

It may not be related to what you are seeing, but grep(1)
is locale-aware.  What it considers a "text" character
depends on the current locale settings.

In my account, which has a Greek locale setup, it will
consider all Greek 8-bit characters as text.



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