[illuminaris]

Hi All

I am trying to figure out, how to search in a textfile containing cyrillic letters in Linux terminal, which uses an english char set.

Using
Cat BreachedDataUkraine53MCitizenshipDatabase.txt
Produces
1448700758      ������  6656    �����˲� 21      ����������      9      1 


using
LANG=ru_RU.CP1251 luit cat BreachedDataUkraine53MCitizenshipDatabase.txt
Produces
КАКОТКІН        207249  РОМАН

But if i try to grep something like
LANG=ru_RU.CP1251 luit cat BreachedDataUkraine53MCitizenshipDatabase.txt | grep МЕРКУЛЕНКО
It just prints the whole file

strings BreachedDataUkraine53MCitizenshipDatabase.txt | grep 1990
Only shows numbers

Any help are appreciated

[flatcat8]

try grep "string" /path/to/your/folder with txt file

[TheBanano21]

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/40573

This stackexchange answer should solve your problem I think.