Another script I use often is repr. https://github.com/anandology/hacks/blob/master/repr
It reads each line from stdin and prints it as python repr. Useful to see hidden/non-alphanumeric characters. $ echo -e "a\bc" c $ echo -e "a\bc" | repr a\x08c\n This is similar to od, but od prints fixed number of characters in each line and sometimes you want to see the lines without breaking. Couple of hours back, I noticed an issue with a row in a mysql dump, and here is how I used it to inspect at that row. $ head -28130 my-table.txt | tail -1 | repr 2006-05-25 00:19:12\t\t1900-01-01 00:00:00\t0000\tMetal1\t Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
