help with egrep ^L

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 12 16:34:05 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:52:42AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> I have an undocumented script that performs egrep ^L</code>. From
> what I can tell this is not a literal ^L. The ^L is only visible in VIM
> not if I cat the file. It must be some sort of control character. What
> does it mean and how can I represent it in a less cryptic fashion?

^L is control-l, and it usually means page feed (on a printer) or clear
screen (on a terminal).

\014 should work in most places if they support octal notation.

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