This is not really answering your question (especially since you're on Windows), but do you know the Unix command ident does exactly what you're after?

IDENT(1) -- 1993/11/09 -- GNU

NAME
    ident - identify RCS keyword strings in files

SYNOPSIS
    ident [ -q ] [ -V ] [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION
    ident   searches   for   all   instances  of   the   pattern
    $keyword: text $  in the  named files  or, if  no  files are
    named, the standard input.

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Certainly I have used ident successfully on binary files under Cygwin on Windows.

In reply to Re: regular expression searching in binary files by aufflick
in thread regular expression searching in binary files by dhlocker

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