How to not display non-printable caracters with wget output?

Question

I'm making a bash script to retrieve some html content, the command line is:

wget http://some_url.com -q -O -output.txt -o /dev/null

But when there are images in the page wget still "display" those with non-printable caracters.

Is there a way to tell to wget to not display those non-printable caracters ?

Cheers

ps: as a matter of fact, i can't do any grep on the "output.txt" as it is considered as a binary file (because of the non printable caracters)

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Answer 1

Usually HTML documents won't contain binary data. I can't reproduce this specific problem.

If it is just about to force grep to search in files which would usually being skipped because grep assumes they are binary, use --binary-files=text :

wget -O- http://server.com/url | grep --binary-files=text 'foo.*bar'