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

[Rich Walker]

Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> writes:

> 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.

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

cheers, Rich.

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