OT: grep for hex characters

[Paul Howarth]

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?)

Will you please stop reposting the exact same message. This is now the 
fourth time - see 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/thread.html

And please try to avoid posting HTML too.

Paul.