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Hi
Which AWK implementation ?
Tested with [tt]gawk[/tt], probably will not work with other implementations.
If you not have to do other text processing, maybe searching in a hex dump of the file will be easier.
Feherke.
Which AWK implementation ?
Code:
awk '/[^[:print:]]/{print"found"}' /input/file
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awk '/[[:cntrl:]]/{print"found"}' /input/fileIf you not have to do other text processing, maybe searching in a hex dump of the file will be easier.
Feherke.
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