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Re:If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) op... by king_phil on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:43PM (#22939638)
I see this and suddenly it clicks! That is exactly why I couldn't import an SQL dump that I tried importing for days now, that is filtered with grep. Wow.

And I was wondering all the time why mysql reported this strange error "SQL error in Binary file" when the .sql file was clearly a text file...

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