From most any manpage:
strings - print the strings of printable characters in files.
Specifically, it (should) only (does|do) sequences of 4 characters or longer...
So, thank you very much... William Oxley! :)
Bizarre grep differences...
- (admin)
- (12)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 12:11:38 PM EST
GLOB screwed up?
-NT
- (boxley)
- (3)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 01:00:52 PM EST
Nope.
- (admin)
- (2)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 01:05:52 PM EST
if you give explicite path, does it work?as in ./file ?
-NT
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 05:06:12 PM EST
Path doesn't matter, globbing doesn't matter.
-NT
- (admin)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 05:11:39 PM EST
Tried any variations to have it search for it literally?
- (folkert)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 01:04:39 PM EST
Since it's not reporting anything back...
- (ChrisR)
- (1)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 04:19:36 PM EST
That's just grep's way of saying, "nothing found"
-NT
- (admin)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 04:49:54 PM EST
Binary files -- different greps?
- (kmself)
- (4)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 12:57:36 AM EST
Already did that.
- (admin)
- (3)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 10:39:59 AM EST
Can it not find the expression with...
- (folkert)
- (2)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 11:36:10 AM EST
he did that using the strings command
-NT
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 12:04:12 PM EST
I know... but strings does some stripping...
- (folkert)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 02:02:11 PM EST