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grep simply fails when used on a few files

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Mar 15, 2026642 views
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Problem

I've been trying for about the past 30 minutes to get this to work properly. is not exactly the most difficult thing to use, so I'm somewhat baffled as to why this won't work. The files I'm trying to use on are simple XHTML log files. Their names are in the format name@domain.com.html, though I don…

Error Output

[~/.chatlogs_windows/dec] > whoami
reid
[~/.chatlogs_windows/dec] > type grep
grep is /bin/grep
[~/.chatlogs_windows/dec] > uname -a
Linux reid-pc 2.…

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Fix for: grep simply fails when used on a few files

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The grep tool doesn't recognise the UTF-16 file encoding.

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