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Show Filenames with Invisible Characters

When listing directories in terminal (using the ls command, for example) some file names might not be displayed correctly. This is often because there are characters in the file's name which cannot be displayed in the command line.

The file names can be shown with their character codes using the "od" command. Just pipe the output of ls to it like this...

ls -1 | od -c

Note: The end of each filename/line is shown as \n