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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep a file that may contain strange characters Post 302588253 by hakermania on Saturday 7th of January 2012 07:55:51 PM
Old 01-07-2012
Power Grep a file that may contain strange characters

Hello unix users Smilie

I am trying to grep a string from a file that both the file and the string may have characters in them that are quite... strange, like würzburger.

Well, bash reads this as
Code:
W%C3%BCrzburger

For example, if i do
Code:
wget W%C3%BCrzburger

the output is:
Code:
--2012-01-08 02:54:29--  http://w%C3%BCrzburger/
Resolving würzburger... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `würzburger'

On the other hand, if a file has this word inside it, and I do
Code:
cat file | grep W%C3%BCrzburger

i get no matching :/

Why is this? how can this be solved?
Many thanks Smilie
 

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