OT: grep for hex characters

[Joachim Backes]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:36 +0100, fergus wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how in general to grep files for hex characters 00
> to ff inclusive? I can do the 26 characters 01 to 1a (being ^A to ^Z
> respectively) and also 20 to 7e (being <space>, punct, 0-9, A-Z, more
> punct, a-z, more punct) but am stuck for everything else: 00, 1b to 1f
> and 7f to ff. Dunno, I thought it might be something like
> 
>         find . | xargs grep -l "\x8f"
> 
> but it's obviously not that. Thanks. (Maybe I can use sed just to find
> stuff, not replace it?)
> 
> Fergus

Using the command "od"?
> 
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