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cheat cheatsheet encodings
This is the output of:
ls | xargs file
7z: ASCII text
ab: ASCII text
alias: ASCII text
ansi: ASCII text
apk: ASCII text
apparmor: ASCII text
apt: ASCII text
apt-cache: ASCII text
apt-get: ASCII text
aptitude: ASCII text
aria2c: ASCII text
asciiart: ASCII text
asterisk: ASCII text
at: ASCII text
awk: ASCII text
bash: ASCII text
bower: ASCII text
bzip2: ASCII text
cat: ASCII text
cd: ASCII text
cheat: ASCII text
chmod: ASCII text
chown: ASCII text
convert: ASCII text
cp: ASCII text
cpdf: ASCII text
crontab: ASCII text
cryptsetup: ASCII text
csplit: ASCII text
cups: ASCII text
curl: ASCII text
cut: ASCII text
date: ASCII text
dd: ASCII text
deb: ASCII text
df: ASCII text
dhclient: ASCII text
diff: ASCII text
distcc: ASCII text
dnf: ASCII text
docker: ASCII text
dpkg: ASCII text
du: ASCII text
emacs: ASCII text
export: ASCII text
ffmpeg: ASCII text
find: UTF-8 Unicode text
for: ASCII text
gcc: ASCII text
gdb: ASCII text
git: ASCII text
gpg: ASCII text
grep: ASCII text
gs: ASCII text
gyb: ASCII text
gzip: ASCII text
hardware-info: ASCII text
head: ASCII text
hg: ASCII text
history: ASCII text
http: ASCII text
hub: UTF-8 Unicode text
iconv: ASCII text
ifconfig: ASCII text
indent: ASCII text
__init__.py: ASCII text
ip: ASCII text
iptables: ASCII text
irssi: ASCII text
iwconfig: ASCII text
journalctl: ASCII text
jq: ASCII text
jrnl: ASCII text
kill: ASCII text
less: ASCII text
lib: ASCII text
ln: ASCII text
ls: ASCII text
lsblk: ASCII text
lsof: ASCII text
lvm: ASCII text
man: ASCII text
markdown: ASCII text
mdadm: ASCII text
mkdir: ASCII text
more: ASCII text
mount: ASCII text
mutt: UTF-8 Unicode text
mv: ASCII text
mysql: ASCII text
mysqldump: ASCII text
nc: ASCII text
ncat: ASCII text
ncdu: ASCII text
netstat: ASCII text
nkf: UTF-8 Unicode text
nmap: ASCII text
nmcli: ASCII text
notify-send: ASCII text
nova: ASCII text
npm: ASCII text
ntp: ASCII text
numfmt: ASCII text
od: ASCII text
openssl: ASCII text
org-mode: ASCII text
p4: ASCII text
pacman: ASCII text
paste: ASCII text
patch: ASCII text
pdftk: UTF-8 Unicode text
perl: ASCII text
pgrep: ASCII text
php: ASCII text
ping: ASCII text
ping6: ASCII text
pip: ASCII text
pkgtools: ASCII text
pkill: ASCII text
popd: ASCII text
ps: ASCII text
psql: ASCII text
pushd: ASCII text
pwd: ASCII text
python: ASCII text
r2: UTF-8 Unicode text
rcs: ASCII text
readline: UTF-8 Unicode text
rename: ASCII text
rm: ASCII text
route: ASCII text
rpm: ASCII text
rpm2cpio: ASCII text
rss2email: ASCII text
rsync: ASCII text
sam2p: UTF-8 Unicode text
scd: ASCII text
scp: ASCII text
screen: ASCII text
sed: ASCII text
shred: ASCII text
shutdown: ASCII text
slurm: ASCII text
smbclient: ASCII text
snap: ASCII text
snmpwalk: ASCII text
sockstat: ASCII text
sort: ASCII text
split: ASCII text
sport: ASCII text
sqlite3: ASCII text
sqlmap: ASCII text
ss: ASCII text
ssh: ASCII text
ssh-copy-id: ASCII text
ssh-keygen: ASCII text
stdout: ASCII text
strace: ASCII text
su: ASCII text
svn: ASCII text
systemctl: ASCII text
systemd: ASCII text
tail: ASCII text
tar: ASCII text
tcpdump: ASCII text
tee: ASCII text
tmux: ASCII text
top: ASCII text
tr: ASCII text
trashy: ASCII text
tree: ASCII text
truncate: ASCII text
udisksctl: ASCII text
uname: ASCII text
uniq: ASCII text
unzip: ASCII text
urpm: ASCII text
vagrant: ASCII text
vim: ASCII text
virtualenv: ASCII text
wc: ASCII text
weechat: ASCII text
wget: ASCII text
xargs: ASCII text
xmlto: ASCII text
xrandr: ASCII text
xxd: ASCII text
yaourt: ASCII text
youtube-dl: ASCII text
yum: ASCII text
zfs: ASCII text
zip: ASCII text
zoneadm: ASCII text
zsh: ASCII text
This is the output of:
ls | xargs file | grep -iv ascii
(So, these are the non-ASCII files.)
find: UTF-8 Unicode text
hub: UTF-8 Unicode text
mutt: UTF-8 Unicode text
nkf: UTF-8 Unicode text
pdftk: UTF-8 Unicode text
r2: UTF-8 Unicode text
readline: UTF-8 Unicode text
sam2p: UTF-8 Unicode text
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