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how to grep ASCII control character

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ascii

If I have a file containing ASCII control character, for example, ^A (Start of Header).

How can I find it using grep in Linux?

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Lin Ma Avatar asked May 07 '15 05:05

Lin Ma

1 Answers

As seen in comments, this solved the issue:

grep $'\01' file
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2 revs Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 19:10

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