Shell Programming and Scripting

Thank you Rudic,
This way, gives: invalid range end error.

Code:

printf '%b' "$(printf '\\U%x' {128..131})" | grep -l "[^\x00-\x7F]"

Somehow, I am printing the filenames now but info is not correct.
sniff.sh

Code:

for file in *.srt
do
printf '%b' "$(printf '\\U%x' {128..131})" $file '\n'
done

Output:

Code:

����1.hr.srt
,����JohnnyEnglishStrikesAgain2018.el.srt
����JohnnyEnglishStrikesAgain2018.en.srt

Normally there is no � inside *.en.srt

The answer seems like related to another case. Maybe files should be converted to UTF-16 encode prior to run this script.

I am closing this thread as solved.

Kind regards
Boris

Try

Code:

printf '%b' "$(printf '\\U%x' {128..131})" | LC_ALL=C grep -lo '[^\x00-\x7F]'
(standard input)

which should be exactly what you need...?

That command gives only standart output
In my understanding, all those commands I have tested so far prints only all srt files but do not search for related charbase string. Then I supposed the reason was not having other language options in my computer*and then added other languages (example:Greek) with locale-gen command.
This issue is not relevant to keyboard language settings.

By using iconv command, I also checked if original file size and converted file size were different. If I could have found any difference, I would have been thinking of adding a size comparison function inside the script but no luck..
PS: Also I have compared char length at each line.


Kind regards
Boris

Hello,
Solved permanently ... Trick is du -b, not du -sh


Thank you
Boris