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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problems with grep and XML Post 302092914 by pauljohn on Friday 13th of October 2006 08:31:49 AM
Old 10-13-2006
Thanks for your input.

Corona688, you said "My wild guess would be that XML Spy is saving them in something crazy like 16-bit Unicode" and I think that's it. (Don't know how to test it though?

After further experimentation, I've discovered that this only happens when I save it encoded as UTF-16 (i.e. the declaration is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>).

When Encoding = UTF-16
Saved in DreamWeaver - file is accessible to grep
Saved in XmlSpy - not accessible to grep

When Encoding = UTF-8
Saved in DreamWeaver - accessible to grep
Saved in XmlSpy - accessible to grep

So if XmlSpy is saving them in 16-bit unicode, can I use grep with them, or do I need to turn to something else?

Cheers
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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