I want to do what egrep '\000\000' files...
would do if egrep understood \NNN octal escape sequences. Is there something I'm missing in the egrep man page that would permit this? If not, is there some package among the bazillions of Debian packages that contains a program that will do this? (I've looked, but found no suspects.) I'm not looking for just any way to do this, since I have a way to do it (emacs tags-search). I'm wondering if there's a vanilla command-line alternative. (A note for the over-eager respondent: since I'm searching for NULs, and command-line arguments are NUL-terminated, there is no way to pass the NULs as a (normal) argument. Period.) -- I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free. http://www.clark.net/pub/hermit/
