>> Will you please stop reposting the exact same message. >> This is now the fourth time ... I apologise for my miserable behaviour in sending the same message >1 time. (It was completely unintentional. Thought it might go unremarked, if not unnoticed. Silly me.) Fergus >> And please try to avoid posting HTML too. Oh sorry. I guessed as it was accepted, it was probably permitted. Fergus >> find . | grep $'\x8f' Thank you! I've inserted a xargs and a -l as follows: find . | xargs grep -l $'\x8f' Unfortunately this fails with the NUL $'\x00', but I'm much better off than I was. Any ideas how to isolate that one? Thnaks again. Fergus
