[clue-tech] clue-tech Digest, Vol 55, Issue 22

[ErikZ]

Awesome. I meant files that has non-ascii bytes. I've never needed to
search through a binary before.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:47 PM, chris fedde <chris at fedde.us> wrote:
> I suppose it depends what you mean by binary.  Are you just talking
> about anything with the execute bit on? or files that contain non
> ascii bytes?  Perl has tests for each of those.
>
> Files that are not executable:
>
>   find2perl /etc/ -type f -! -type x  | perl
>
> Files that do not appear to contain binary data:
>
>   find2perl /etc/ -type f -! -type B | perl
>
> As always YMMV
>
> cfedde
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Whiting, Gary
> <Gary.Whiting at echostar.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a way to pre-filter out all the binary files? Before grep gets to them?
>>
>>  find /etc -type f
>>
>> Finds files of type [f]ile. Or xtype depending on how you want to handle links.
>>
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