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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh check for non printable characters in a string Post 302934708 by RudiC on Tuesday 10th of February 2015 05:33:40 AM
Old 02-10-2015
If what you show as ^Y represents <CTRL> Y (0x19, "EM"), it is member of the ASCII char set which in turn is a subset of UTF-8. Although there exist byte sequences that are not valid UTF-8 characters, they should not show up in texts or HTML files, unless created by a failed transmission or conversion.
Please show us a hexdump (od -ctx1 file) of your problematic file.
 

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rpccp_help

help(1m)																  help(1m)

NAME

       help - Displays a list of commands or the options of a specified command

SYNOPSIS

       rpccp help [rpccp-command]

ARGUMENTS

       Specifies one of the following control commands:

DESCRIPTION

       The help command displays information about the RPCCP command set or the options and argument associated with a specific command.

NOTE

       This command may be replaced in future releases by the dcecp command, and may no longer be supported at that time.

EXAMPLES

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