Question

I want to find french characters in my java files. They are ‘é’, ‘à’, ‘ê’, ‘è’. I need to locate all the files containing theses ‘evil’ characters (so anywhere in a string).

If I use grep under cygwin to find them it does not find anything.

grep -r -I ‘é’ .

grep -r -I \x82 .

None of the above found anything but there is a file in ‘.’ containing ‘é’ character.

Can someone help?

Thanx

Answer 1

I’m not in cygwin, but in linux. However, I don’t think their grep differs that much from the linux one. This is the simple test I did and it seems to work fine:

$ mkdir a_dir
$ cd a_dir
$ echo "this is a tèst" > a_file
$ grep -rl 'tèst' .
./a_file
$ cat a_file
this is a tèst

Can you do the same and tell me if the results are the same?