Having trouble finding a word in multiple files
C de-Avillez
hggdh2 at ubuntu.com
Sun Jun 14 16:37:53 UTC 2020
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 4:56 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 'grep' can only be used to find an expression in text files. odt and
> similar formats aren't text files.
We can use --binary-files=text on grep to search binary files for
*text* strings.
But please read the caveats on using it.
Cheers,
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