In article <qvgvx-m...@gated-at.bofh.it> R. Clayton <rclay...@monmouth.edu> 
wrote:
> and I've been getting a lot of this lately:

>   $ grep ^Subject: cbtm 
>   Binary file cbtm matches

> whereas before (a month or so ago) I used to get actual matches on std-out.
> It's easy enough to work around like so

>   $ sed -n -e '/^Subject:/p' < cbtm 
>   Subject: Re: PTFACULTY: FTFACULTY: When saying "Nous sommes Paris" is not
>   Subject: FTFACULTY: When saying "Nous sommes Paris" is not enough
>   Subject: Lowered Reserve Prices

> but I'd like to grep working like it used to.  What is the way for me to get
> grep back?  Some other points that may be useful:

>   $ file cbtm 
>   cbtm: ISO-8859 text, with very long lines

>   $ ba env | grep -i utf
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8

Trying "grep -a ..." might work. Or "LANG=C grep ...".


-- 
MartinS

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