grep for ascii nul

[Victor Sudakov]

Sorry for the confusion. Of cource I meant files with ascii nul in file
contents, inside. Because why would I have mentioned "grep"?

I need to find files containing ascii null inside, and print their names to stdout.


thor wrote:
> There is NO such thing as filenames containing 0x00 inside the filename. 
> UNIX filenames are strings in C meaning and may contain any 8-bit values 
> except "/" which delimits the subdirectory names and 0x00 which marks 
> the end of filename string.
> 
> At least it was so when I first met Unix, and I hope Bill Gates never 
> influenced Unix since this time.
> 
> On 11/01/19 10:48, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > How can I print the names of files containing ascii nul (\x0)? The
> > FreeBSD "grep -l" does not seem to be able to do it.
> >
> > NB I don't need to delete the nul character with sed or tr, just need to
> > find files containing it.
> >
> 
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-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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