Long and short I'm trying to track down some files left by evil scum on a server.fgrep -r STRING  /path/herehas been working well for finding general stuff.However, how do I search for hex patterns (you know... \xNN type strings).Probably an easy question to answer but I've been spending too long starting at a bash screen !
how do I recursivley grep (or otherwise search for) hex strings
bash;grep;ksh
Not sure what you mean. Possibly with GNU grep:grep -Ero '(\\x[[:xdigit:]]{2})+' .To match strings of the format \xNN (the 4 characters backslash, x and two hexadecimal digits)