On Friday 01 July 2016 05:43:44 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 07/01/16 01:35: > > On Thursday 30 June 2016 19:25:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > <snip> > > > No, thats just grep being grep, it says that of ANY binary file it > > tries to read as text. I have spent days pouring over the manpages > > for grep, looking for a option to feed it to make grep quit that, > > simply because its so verbose that what you are looking for can get > > lost in its blathering about that. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Is 'grep -rI /etc' doing what you want? The switch "-I" should > "process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data". > > Regards, > jvp.
But in the example that started this side-track discussion, following the simlinks discloses that the /usr/bin/aptitude-curses file does indeed match, but having looked at hex dumps of compiled C for 30 years now, I will repeat myself by saying yes, its there and case matches the string being searched for BECAUSE the binary has to have that string as a comparison that determines how it runs. IOW, once is 100% expected. However I have no similar reasoning to apply to the match in the python-2.7 tree. OTOH, me not a python guru. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
