How to grep a text file which contains some binary data?

Question

grep returns

Binary file test.log matches

For example

echo    \"line1 re \\x00\\r\\nline2\\r\\nline3 re\\r\\n\" > test.log  # in zsh         


        

Answer 1

You can force grep to look at binary files with:

grep --binary-files=text

You might also want to add -o (--only-matching) so you don't get tons of binary gibberish that will bork your terminal.