How to suppress binary file matching results in grep

Question

When using grep in linux  the result often contains a lot of  binary file XXX matches   which I do not care about  How to suppress this part of the results  or how to exclude binary files in grep

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This is an old question and its been answered but I thought I d put the --binary-files text option here for anyone who wants to use it  The -I option ignores the binary file but if you want the grep to treat the binary file as a text file use --binary-files text like so   bash  grep -i reset mediaLog  Binary file mediaLog dc1 txt matches bash  grep --binary-files text -i reset mediaLog  mediaLog dc1 txt 2016-06-29 15 46 02 470 - Media  uploadChunk   315  - ERROR -   Connection aborted    error 104   Connection reset by peer    mediaLog dc1 txt ConnectionError    Connection aborted    error 104   Connection reset by peer    bash

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There are three options  that you can use  -I is to exclude binary files in grep  Other are for line numbers and file names   grep -I -n -H    -I -- process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data   -n -- prefix each line of output with the 1-based line number within its input file -H -- print the file name for each match   So this might be a way to run grep   grep -InH your-word

[linux] How to suppress binary file matching results in grep

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