View Whitespace

Published: 2023-12-01

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3569997/how-to-find-out-line-endings-in-a-text-file

Using the -A flag with cat shows non-printing characters, including line endings.

cat -A file.txt

List of how some characters are represented:

• ^I - Tab (\t)
• ^M - Carriage Return (\r)
• $ - Line Feed (\n) (Comes at the end of a line and didn’t try a line without \n so they are the same for my use cases)