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Old 09-13-2006
Non-ASCII charaters in a unix file

Hi,
Could you pls help me with the command to know the non-ascii characters in a unix file.

Thanks
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Old 09-13-2006
By non ascii, do you mean just unprintable? Or really encoded in something like unicode? For unprintable characters, use 'cat -v'. Check man page for details.
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