tgrep - Grep, but only in Text files
tgrep
tgrep pattern file ...
tgrep works like grep (and if fact uses it internally), it just skips entries that aren't text files or files that exceed 100K in size.
$ tgrep home /etc/*
Copyright 2005 by Mike Schilli, all rights reserved. This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
2005, Mike Schilli <mschilli@yahoo-inc.com>