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Grep and print control characters in file

Dec 04, 2009, 19:01 (0 Talkback[s])

[ Thanks to Jadu for this link. ]

"Also if you know what to grep for, say in above example the control character is ^B (hex x02); then you can directly grep for it like this
$ grep ^B /tmp/file.txt

* ^B to be typed as ctrl V and ctrl B

"And to match any non printable characters, here is another way using grep"

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