How Do I See Characters in Linux?
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How do you display characters in Linux?

Linux Terminal: Seeing the unseen characters with cat!

  1. Use cat -T to display TAB characters as ^I. cat -T /tmp/testing.txt testing ^I^Itesting more testing ^I even more testing ^I^I^I. …
  2. Use cat -E to display $ at end of each line. …
  3. Use a simple cat -A to show up all the invisible characters:

How do you show special characters in Unix?

To find a character string, type / followed by the string you want to search for, and then press Return. vi positions the cursor at the next occurrence of the string. For example, to find the string “meta,” type /meta followed by Return. Type n to go to the next occurrence of the string.

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