Assuming that you're using a common US keyboard, the above expression will find several characters that are on the keyboard including, but not limited to {, }, |, [, and ] and you have a few unneeded backslashes. The following is a more complete vi search command:
Using the above search command on the output from the OS X command man 7 ascii only matches backspace characters. If you would also like to skip backspace and other control characters, you could use:
The order of most of these characters doesn't matter, but the first three characters in this expression have to be [^] to start a non-matching expression that excludes ] and the - needs to be the last character before the closing ] to exclude the minus sign. (Your expression seems to have excluded - as an accident because in ASCII the range expression &-\/ (or equivalently &-/) in a non-matching expression excludes &, ', (, ), *, +, ,, -, ., and / and you also exclude several of these characters individually.) Of course, the [:space:] and [:cntrl:] have to remain as these sequences in order, but they can appear anywhere within the bracket expression.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 07-10-2013 at 07:27 PM..
Reason: Remove extraneous "1" from 1st search
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You search for negative range, like not tab plus not space through tilde: [^^I -~]
^I is tab 0x09 and ~ is 0x7E, so type that as [ ^ tab space - ~ ]
You can add any other specials that are OK in your context, like form feed ^L, carriage return ^M and backspace ^H. If they do not show on your screen, look at the line with ex command l: :.l
Last edited by DGPickett; 07-16-2013 at 04:59 PM..
Reason: Explain the tab more carefully.
Yes. The search pattern I gave was just the one that works for vi. When you are passing the expression as an argument through a shell to grep (or some other utility) you have another level of quoting to worry about. With some shells you have to escape the backquote to avoid it being treated as the start of a command substitution inside a double quoted string. In other shells, that backslash wouldn't matter. With some shells, you might also have to escape the dollar sign. Note also that the "1" I marked in red above was a typo on my part. It won't hurt anything, but it isn't needed. I have also corrected it in my earlier message.
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