[TriLUG] How to look for 0xFE using grep?

[Michael Rothwell]

grep -a `perl -e "print chr(0xFE)"` $filename

On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to find lines with binary 254 characters, and cannot  
> find them.
>
> I've tried
>
> grep "\0xFE" infile
>
> That produced no output, even though there are many lines with  
> binary 0xFE, at
> least according to Vim.
>
> Thanks
>
> STeveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
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