[Gllug] Find non-7-bit characters in files

[Tethys]

Rich Walker writes:

>grep -E [`echo -ne "\200"`-`echo -ne "\377"`] *

Right idea, wrong range. That excludes valid UTF-8 characters. I assume
the original request was to be able to find MS moronic HTML[1]. Thus:

	egrep [$(echo -ne '\200-\240')]

Tet

[1] http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
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