How to grep for unicode � in a bash script

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if grep -q "�" out.txt
 then
 echo "working"
 else
 cat out.txt
fi


Basically, if the file "out.txt" contains "�" anywhere in the file I would like it to echo "working" AND if the file "out.txt" does NOT contain "�" anywhere in the file then I would like it to cat out.txt






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  • It looks correct, it should work (btw, I have no font for your unicode character to see, but none of them has any special meaning). grep long understands unicode (which makes it much slower, so to search for ascii strings, a LANG=C grep is a huge performance improvement).
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if grep -q "�" out.txt
 then
 echo "working"
 else
 cat out.txt
fi


Basically, if the file "out.txt" contains "�" anywhere in the file I would like it to echo "working" AND if the file "out.txt" does NOT contain "�" anywhere in the file then I would like it to cat out.txt






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  • It looks correct, it should work (btw, I have no font for your unicode character to see, but none of them has any special meaning). grep long understands unicode (which makes it much slower, so to search for ascii strings, a LANG=C grep is a huge performance improvement).
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    22 mins ago













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if grep -q "�" out.txt
 then
 echo "working"
 else
 cat out.txt
fi


Basically, if the file "out.txt" contains "�" anywhere in the file I would like it to echo "working" AND if the file "out.txt" does NOT contain "�" anywhere in the file then I would like it to cat out.txt






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if grep -q "�" out.txt
 then
 echo "working"
 else
 cat out.txt
fi


Basically, if the file "out.txt" contains "�" anywhere in the file I would like it to echo "working" AND if the file "out.txt" does NOT contain "�" anywhere in the file then I would like it to cat out.txt






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  • It looks correct, it should work (btw, I have no font for your unicode character to see, but none of them has any special meaning). grep long understands unicode (which makes it much slower, so to search for ascii strings, a LANG=C grep is a huge performance improvement).
    – peterh
    22 mins ago

















  • It looks correct, it should work (btw, I have no font for your unicode character to see, but none of them has any special meaning). grep long understands unicode (which makes it much slower, so to search for ascii strings, a LANG=C grep is a huge performance improvement).
    – peterh
    22 mins ago
















It looks correct, it should work (btw, I have no font for your unicode character to see, but none of them has any special meaning). grep long understands unicode (which makes it much slower, so to search for ascii strings, a LANG=C grep is a huge performance improvement).
– peterh
22 mins ago





It looks correct, it should work (btw, I have no font for your unicode character to see, but none of them has any special meaning). grep long understands unicode (which makes it much slower, so to search for ascii strings, a LANG=C grep is a huge performance improvement).
– peterh
22 mins ago











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grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]"


if .. then statement as follows:



if grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]" file.txt; then
 echo "grep found something"
else
 echo "not found"
fi


Explanation💡:



[^x00-x7F] is a regex to match a single non-ASCII character.
[[:ascii:]] - matches a single ASCII char
[^[:ascii:]] - matches a single non-ASCII char


in bash



LC_COLLATE=C grep -o '[^ -~]' file





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    try 



    grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]"


    if .. then statement as follows:



    if grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]" file.txt; then
     echo "grep found something"
    else
     echo "not found"
    fi


    Explanation💡:



    [^x00-x7F] is a regex to match a single non-ASCII character.
    [[:ascii:]] - matches a single ASCII char
    [^[:ascii:]] - matches a single non-ASCII char


    in bash



    LC_COLLATE=C grep -o '[^ -~]' file





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      try 



      grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]"


      if .. then statement as follows:



      if grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]" file.txt; then
       echo "grep found something"
      else
       echo "not found"
      fi


      Explanation💡:



      [^x00-x7F] is a regex to match a single non-ASCII character.
      [[:ascii:]] - matches a single ASCII char
      [^[:ascii:]] - matches a single non-ASCII char


      in bash



      LC_COLLATE=C grep -o '[^ -~]' file





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        try 



        grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]"


        if .. then statement as follows:



        if grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]" file.txt; then
         echo "grep found something"
        else
         echo "not found"
        fi


        Explanation💡:



        [^x00-x7F] is a regex to match a single non-ASCII character.
        [[:ascii:]] - matches a single ASCII char
        [^[:ascii:]] - matches a single non-ASCII char


        in bash



        LC_COLLATE=C grep -o '[^ -~]' file





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        try 



        grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]"


        if .. then statement as follows:



        if grep -oP "[^x00-x7F]" file.txt; then
         echo "grep found something"
        else
         echo "not found"
        fi


        Explanation💡:



        [^x00-x7F] is a regex to match a single non-ASCII character.
        [[:ascii:]] - matches a single ASCII char
        [^[:ascii:]] - matches a single non-ASCII char


        in bash



        LC_COLLATE=C grep -o '[^ -~]' file






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