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

[Russell Howe]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:02:44PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> Here's a small Thursday afternoon puzzler for everyone.
> 
> I hae a large number of files (HTML files in fact, not that it
> matters).  A clueless^Wevil web monkey^Wdesigner has hidden bytes in
> them that are in the range 0x80 - 0xff, so the files aren't valid
> UTF-8.
> 
> I want to find those characters.  Preferably quickly from the command
> line.

Assuming these are windows-1252 files, why not just do this?

find /somewhere -type f -name '*.html' -exec recode windows1252..utf8

?

Then you even get the UTF8 version of whatever character said monkey
used...

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