Yeah, in general editors or other tools will put in place-holders for non
printable characters. The ^M's are carriage returns (left by Windows) and can
be safely ignored, what I saw was a null character good text editors shouldn't
choke up on either of those but the null characters would explain the encoding
strangeness. You can look for non-printable characters using greps character
range:
grep -aP '[\x7f-\xff]' AZ021306-FOIArefund-list.txt
If you're interested in fixing this to be recognized as a text file, you can
combined that with `nl`:
nl AZ021306-FOIArefund-list.txt | grep -aP '[\x7f-\xff]'
which should get you a line number. From there use a "programmer's text
editor" (vim, emacs, sublime text, ect.) to removing the offending character.
Hope that helps.
Paul Mooring
Operations Engineer
www.opscode.com
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<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:02 PM
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Subject: Re: I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip properly
cool..... vi opens it. I do not see any '^@' characters but I see a lot of '^M'
characters. I see a few '@' characters. So I do not need to worry about those
characters.... only the non ascii ones?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Paul Mooring
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
There's some null characters (look like ^@ in vim) in this file causing your
problem, run `file -I <file_name>` and you'll see it's charset is binary. I
found some null chars on line 155 (grep for non-ascii characters to find them).
You can remove them with sed or tr and be on your happy way.
Paul Mooring
Operations Engineer
www.opscode.com<http://www.opscode.com>
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[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
on behalf of Michael Havens <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:09 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip properly
It seems to unzip fine but the document that opens freezes libre writer and
when I try to open it with a text editor it complains about encoding. here is
the file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5x24uzhyrv3mo1/az-foiarefund-list.zip
Any ideas how to open it?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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