Special Characters

[hpuxrox]

Anyone know the command to look for Special Characters in a ascii file?

[Ralph Grothe · Accepted solution]

cat -v

od

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

# od -Ad -t c myfile | pg

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Patrick Wallek]

Try this:

# cat -v filename

and see if that's what you want.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
Have you tried vis?

vis(1) vis(1)

NAME
vis, inv - make unprintable and non-ASCII characters in a file visible
or invisible



All the best
Victor