finding funny charaters in a string

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finding funny charaters in a string

hi,

i have got a little problem where some of the files i created had some funny characters e.g space ,"^m" etc inserted in the full file name and which caused our backup script to skip those files.
is it possible to find out if there are any funny charaters in a string ?

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code:
cat -vet
this will display all the control characters. ^ and $ represents the start and end of line.

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mona,

thanks for that and also could you please advise code in finding characters other than ascii from a string e.g between chr(49) and chr(122).

thanks

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try this

code:
egrep '[^]0-9a-za-z:;<>=\?@\[\\\^\_`]' [img]http://www.unix.com/images/buttons

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mona,

thanks for that. could we include "/" as legitmate part of the string, as i am using full path name for the files.

best regards