Re: [PLUG] find all files with non ascii characters in a directory

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

I see that I was missing the -P to indicate perl regex.  I subsquently tried this:

find . -type f | grep -P "[\x80-\xFF]"
./.PlayOnLinux/configurations/icones/Marine Malice 2 : Le Mystère de l'Ecole Hantée

It found a french named file I didn't even know I had but ignored the chinese named test file completely.  It is imperative that it also find chinese characters. 

Any help would be appreciated.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:

I am interested in using the find command to recursively find all non-ascii character named files in a directory.  I found this article in stack overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3001177/how-do-i-grep-for-all-non-ascii-characters-in-unix

based on the reported best answer I tried:

find . -type f | grep "[\x80-\xFF]"

this results in the following error:
grep: Invalid range end

I have created a chinese named empty file in my home directory for testing purposes using the touch command.  I would like my find string to find not just chinese, but all non-ascii characters.  Can anyone help me with this?  Thanks

Michael Lazin

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