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"

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Repeating Commands in Bash(Dec 05, 2009)
• More Fun With Bash Quoting(Nov 24, 2009)
• Dealing With Strange Filenames(Nov 24, 2009)
• Tech Tip: Find Directories Over a Certain Size(Nov 18, 2009)
• Top 3 Sites To Help You Become A Linux Command Line Master(Nov 18, 2009)
• Command line tricks for smart geeks(Nov 17, 2009)
• Enhancing terminals with byobu on Ubuntu 9.10(Nov 13, 2009)