On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Jason Fischer wrote:
>I don't know who originally posted (the one that Sean is responding to)
>but yes, there is a version of grep abouts someplace (either that or I've
>been taking the same drugs as the original poster) that will skip binary
>files. Also there is a way to check if a file is binary or not. The file
>command (see man file) checks a file's magic number. I see no reason why
>grep could do the same thing.
You could always make a wrapper for it.
if [ "`file $FILE | fgrep text`" ]; then
grep the file
fi
All 'normal' files have "text" in their description.
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