Sometimes while troubleshooting data issues I want to see non printable characters on the stdin.
Following is how to do that
1. Create a file with non printable characters
echo -e "Quick brown fox\tjumped over lazy\0002dog" > test
2. View the file
cat test
You will see
Quick brown fox jumped over lazydog
3. Now to see non printable speical characters use command od as
0000000 Q u i c k b r o w n f o x \t
0000020 j u m p e d o v e r l a z y
0000040 002 d o g \n
0000045
Following is how to do that
1. Create a file with non printable characters
echo -e "Quick brown fox\tjumped over lazy\0002dog" > test
2. View the file
cat test
You will see
Quick brown fox jumped over lazydog
3. Now to see non printable speical characters use command od as
od -c test
Output will be 0000000 Q u i c k b r o w n f o x \t
0000020 j u m p e d o v e r l a z y
0000040 002 d o g \n
0000045
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