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Searching for right double angle quotes on freebsd7 unix

Hi,

I know how to search for a string in files using grep

grep -Flr --include "*" 'string' files/

However how would I search for right double angle quotes ( » ) as the character will not appear in the terminal.

Thanks.

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The double angle quotes are ASCII codes 174 (<<) and 175 (>>), if you are talking about ANSI character set and not Unicode.

You can try:

grep `echo "\256"` file

256 is the octal ASCII value for <<. Note that octal value is enclosed in backquotes.

Hernán  2010-01-20 23:22:51

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