Walt Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've had several occasions to want to extract the byte-offset
> of a text string in a binary file. The various versions of grep
> I've used won't provide that unless the file is treated as text
> - printing a line indicating that the string is present.

You can use -a to force treatment as non-binary.

Andreas.

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