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

Thanks Rich, that's the hint I needed, I got it working with:

~$ find . -type f | grep -P '[^\x00-\x7f]'
./潍敤⠠㜸ㄬ㘰ㄬ㈲㈬㔲㈬㜰㜬⸩
./.PlayOnLinux/configurations/icones/Marine Malice 2 : Le Mystère de l'Ecole Hantée

It found both files!

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I'm not a regexp/perl expert, but I suspect that this is detecting
extended ascii characters, not non-ascii characters. You need to
search for unicode/etc as well.

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Rich
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