# Find non-ASCII chars

DevFeed: [Find non-ASCII chars](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/find-non-ascii-chars-37714.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://carlosbecker.com/posts/find-non-ascii-chars/>)

Author: Carlos Alexandro Becker

Published: 2015-02-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Carlos Becker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/carlos-becker.md>)

Topics: [ASCII](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ascii.md>), [dotfiles](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dotfiles.md>), [file](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/file.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [ascii](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ascii.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [file](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/file.md>), [function](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/function.md>), [project](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>)

## AI overview

A quick tip for finding non-ASCII characters in files, particularly dotfiles, using a command-line function. Such characters can cause shellcheck and other tools to break, and identifying them makes cleanup faster.

## Source excerpt

FYI: This is a really quick tip.