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edited Jun 30, 2015 at 20:27

If you want to use grep, you can do:

grep -avaxv '^'.*$'*' file

in UTF-8 locales to get the lines that have at least an invalid UTF-8 sequence (this works with GNU Grep at least).

If you want to use grep, you can do:

grep -av '^.*$' file

in UTF-8 locales to get the lines that have at least an invalid UTF-8 sequence (this works with GNU Grep at least).

If you want to use grep, you can do:

grep -axv '.*' file

in UTF-8 locales to get the lines that have at least an invalid UTF-8 sequence (this works with GNU Grep at least).

answered Dec 19, 2014 at 22:14

If you want to use grep, you can do:

grep -av '^.*$' file

in UTF-8 locales to get the lines that have at least an invalid UTF-8 sequence (this works with GNU Grep at least).