[PLUG] Identifying character codes in an ASCII text file
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at attbi.com
Thu Aug 15 16:34:10 UTC 2002
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:
> How can I identify the hex code for this character? And, how would I
> specify that code in a search-and-replace operation (in joe or
> emacs, for example)?
od is the command-line utility I typically use for such things. Try
od -ab filename.txt | less
Then you can use perl for the search and replace:
# replace spaces with '%'
perl -pe 's/\055/%/g' filename.old > filename.new
--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
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