Re: Unicode-aware grep?
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, sjuranic@ssli-mail.ee.washington.edu wrote:
> Is there a grep that is able to understand utf-16-[lb]e encoded
> files? I have a bunch of LaTeX source files intended for Lambda, so
> they're stored as utf-16-le. But when I try and grep the files,
> nothing happens because of all of the extra bytes in the file.
>
> I've looked at the man page for grep and looked at that 'lv'
> package, but I couldn't make anything work.
The preferred way to use Unicode in Debian is to use UTF-8. Try
something like:
$ iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 my_utf_16_file > temporary_file
Then you can grep temporary_file.
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