speaking of grepping shift-jis, anyone familiar with lv/lgrep?

[Joel Rees]

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/lv.1.html

claims to do multilingual grep.

Guess I'll check packages and see if I can yum it.

Or maybe even just 

    man lv

pleasant surprise. 

Well, maybe. Looks like I'll have to wrap it in some perl to get
recursion.