ASCII

wikipedia:ASCII

file venv/bin/activate
venv/bin/activate: ASCII text

Remove non ASCII characters

LANG=C gsed -i 's/[\d128-\d255]//g'

Remove ANSI escape codes:

gcloud --help | sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' 

file text.txt
text.txt: ASCII text

file yourfile.txt
yourfile.txt: ASCII text, with escape sequences

Activities

• Use vimdiff, icdiff or set list in vim to identify lines with a single space on it.

Related

• 1m
• ^X, ^M
• file
• Hexadecimal
• gsed: no input files
• less -R
• cat -v

See also

• file, /usr/share/keyrings/, file --help
• ASCII, Hexadecimal, base64, ASCII escape character, ANSI escape code, asciinema