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How can I identify non-ASCII characters from the shell?

Is there a simple way to print all non-ASCII characters and the line numbers on which they occur in a file using a command line utility such as grep, awk, perl, etc? I want to change the encoding of ...
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Changing binary file to readable text file

I have a program that creates a file that stores text like this: application/octet-stream; charset=binary now i need to convert this file to this: text/plain; charset=us-ascii i know this is ...
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Use full ascii table to file name in linux

In the Windows operating system I can use unusual characters in the file name by typing the decimal code of the character in the number pad. This way I can access all of the characters in the ...
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In linux how do I to get ' quote ` back-tic through the shell into sed.

In linux how do I to get the ascii decimal/hex/oct code from a char or a ascii char from a decimal/hex/oct code. I see from the gnu sed user manual that I can use the \d# \o# \x# to specify a ...
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Tool to convert a file of HEX to ASCII character set?

Question: Is there a known tool to convert a file consisting of 2 byte Hex into ascii? Note: - Maintain file offset listing in bytes Example: File contents: 00000000 0054 0065 0073 0074 0020 ...
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Unconvert Text File from Binary Format

I've got a rather large CSV file (~700MB) which I know to consist of lines of 27-character alpha-numeric hashes; no commas or anything fancy. Somehow, during its migration from Windows to Linux (via ...
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ascii mode ftp between two linux boxes does undesired CRLF translation

Using the FTP command I transferred an xml file from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux box which happens to be in Europe to another RHEL box in the United States. I didn't specify a transfer mode so it ...
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How do I make 'man ascii' work on Fedora 11

Upgrading from Fedora 9 with a full reinstall off the non-developers CD image, then installing various packages. man ascii doesn't work -- what do I need to install to get this to work?