Interesting consequence of a wise Monk's attempt to get some insight to the OP can be found in (cross-reference):
OT: a bash shell oddity, need explanation
In reply to Re: Removing non-printing (hex codes) from text files
by ww
in thread Removing non-printing (hex codes) from text files
by moesplace
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