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This has helped me when using the -z flag to match across several lines.

stragu
– stragu

2018-04-24 07:51:17 +00:00
Commented Apr 24, 2018 at 7:51
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It has worked for me, but still weird because my file isn't a binary file. [grid@serverdg2 trace]$ file listener.log listener.log: data

Astora
– Astora

2020-12-01 03:42:35 +00:00
Commented Dec 1, 2020 at 3:42
3

It is enough, if your file has a single non-decodable character, and grep will fail (if not used with -a)

ivan
– ivan

2022-05-05 11:43:18 +00:00
Commented May 5, 2022 at 11:43

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