Re: [tlug] binary search of binary data

[Edward Wright <edw@example.com>]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:01:13PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Edward" == Edward Wright <edw@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Edward> Comment: there oughta be a "binary" grep.
> 
> There is: grep -ab.  Why it didn't do what you want, I don't know;
> maybe it's a bug in grep.
>

I use grep -ab for searching thru the file for text strings, but I
couldn't see how to pass a binary search pattern to grep. Am I missing
something simple here?