Search for text in binary files
Contributed by qmchenry 
Tagged: UNIX Unix commands and examples for finding text in binary files.
To extract all text strings from a file, use:
strings filename
To search for all occurrences of the text “maybe” in the binary file filename use:
strings filename | grep maybe
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