Re: Q: regex, binary characters, vi, and grep

[Frank Bax <fbax_(_at_)_sympatico_(_dot_)_ca>]

At 05:16 PM 10/18/04, OpenBSD wrote:
> 2. Grep does not seem to work with \xnn or \\xnn sequences. printf does,
> but I can't make grep use them. Even piping into grep was useless. So were
> various quotes, escapes, etc. So was egrep.

Add some more backslashes and grep can use printf results.  Most of my 
questions to this list never get answered; so if a dummy like me can figure 
this one out, I don't expect you'll need an example.

> 3. How can I search for these characters in vi? If there was a way to
> search for the string in the buffer, that would work too. If there was
> such a way.

man vi  (search for ... [hint: 16 binary digits])