Christopher Barry on 17 Jun 2016 13:01:02 -0700


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


On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:20:12 -0400
brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 06/17/2016 11:13 AM, Michael Lazin 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. 
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated.  
>
>
>(sorry- :digit:, not :num:. see the "Character Classes and Bracket
>Expressions" in the grep man page for more)
>


...and my fav: [[:punct:]]

-- 
Regards,
Christopher
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