[olug] Unix Tip: FINDING CONTROL CHARACTERS

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			Unix Tip 2043 - August  5, 2003

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FINDING CONTROL CHARACTERS

To find out the control 
characters in a file, we 
can use following two methods:

% cat -vet filename

or edit the file using vi:

:set list

This tip generously supported by: tb.unnikrishnan at citicorp.com


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