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With GNU grep, you can use -a option to make it treats binary files as text files:

grep -alir string -- file

If your grep version does not support -a, you can use ack instead. With ack 1.x, you need to include -a option, with ack 2.x, you don't, since when searching include non-text file by default (only ignored non-text file when you did not specify any files).

With GNU grep, you can use -a option to make it treats binary files as text files:

grep -ali -- string file

If your grep version does not support -a, you can use ack instead. With ack 1.x, you need to include -a option, with ack 2.x, you don't, since when searching include non-text file by default (only ignored non-text file when you did not specify any files).

With GNU grep, you can use -a option to make it treats binary files as text files:

grep -alir string -- file

If your grep version does not support -a, you can use ack instead. With ack 1.x, you need to include -a option, with ack 2.x, you don't, since when searching include non-text file by default.

With GNU grep, you can use -a option to make it treats binary files as text files:

grep -alir string -- file

If your grep version does not support -a, you can use ack instead. With ack 1.x, you need to include -a option, with ack 2.x, you don't, since when searching include non-text file by default (only ignored non-text file when you did not specify any files).

With GNU grep, you can use -a option to make it treats binary files as text files:

grep -alir string -- file

With GNU grep, you can use -a option to make it treats binary files as text files:

grep -alir string -- file

If your grep version does not support -a, you can use ack instead. With ack 1.x, you need to include -a option, with ack 2.x, you don't, since when searching include non-text file by default.