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Since I upgraded grep from 2.16 to 2.21 it treats .properties-files like binary files. This sucks because I like to use grep -I ... to exclude binary files from the search results and .properties-files are clearly no binary files.

Is there a way to change that behavior?

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  • Are these text files that you have created yourself? What is creating them? More explicitly: are you sure they don't have a binary header with some readable text? Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 14:16

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grep --binary-files=text pattern file

another solution :

strings -a file | grep pattern
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  • A note that running strings on untrusted files can make security vulnerable, see: lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/… Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 17:24

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