Re: say if grep can find non-ascii

[Claudio Fontana]

--- Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote: 

> Julian Foad <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I don't think the Grep manual should say
> explicitly how to do that
> > particular thing.
> 
> I disagree.  I think it'd be useful to have a simple
> pattern that
> tests for ASCII characters (i.e., bytes in the range
> 00 through 7F).

I had good results using the bash quoting.
Example: (find all lines containing bytes between 0x80
and 0xff)

$ grep [$'\x80'-$'\xFF'] *.txt

However the character 0x0 cannot be explicitly
specified for obvious argv reasons.

CLaudio




                
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