Pipe to grep not working in zsh

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Published on 2010-05-17T13:45:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 13:51 UTC
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I am doing something I always do in Bash:

set | grep -i path

and the output is

Binary file (standard input) matches

What's wrong? grep --help works, and set | more works too.

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