How to grep for "U+2028"?

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git diff is showing me there have been a few of these in my code:

                     <div style={styles.loadingContainer}><U+2028>
                         <CircularProgress />
-                    </div><U+2028>
+                    </div>

I would like to grep all files to find and remove these. They were screwing up the design and costing me like 3 hours so far :-(

you want a find and replace for the files inside your whole project right? Why don't you try with your IDE? what is the IDE you are using? — Supun Wijerathne, Oct 21 '16 at 10:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '16 at 23:46

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Assuming you're using bash you can use its string substitution

grep $'\u2028' /path/to/file

Other shells may have similar features.

answered Oct 20 '16 at 23:46

the8472

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That doesn't work for me. `git diff`shows: but grep doesn't produce any output. Vim shows me there is a character before the line break. If I delete that character, git diff doesn't show anymore. – kev Oct 21 '16 at 00:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 14 '21 at 13:19

git diff is showing the unicode character 2028 (i.e. LINE SEPARATOR, see eg. https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2028/index.htm) as <U+2028>.

To find all places where this unicode character is used, run:

git grep "$(printf '\u2028')"

This uses the command printf to produce the requested unicode char, which is then passed to git grep as an argument.

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 21 '16 at 11:01

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Go to your project directory with terminal.
grep -nr U+2028

For your objective Search & Replace path option in your IDE would help. For intelliJ you can use Ctrl + Shift + R.

answered Oct 21 '16 at 11:01

Supun Wijerathne

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greps successfully the string "U+2028" but not the unicode character itself. – kev Oct 23 '16 at 21:42

How to grep for "U+2028"?

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