Unicode Text Grep

Grep unicode descriptive names and display matching characters. All descriptions are punctuation-free ASCII (low bit). All searches are case insensitive.

grep special characters supported: * + ? . ^ $ []

grep special characters supported:

*

0 or more of last

+

1 or more of last

?

0 or 1 of last

.

any single character

^

force (anchor) to be at start (only useful at start)

$

force (anchor) to be at end (only useful at end, and watch out for trailing whitespace!)

[]

character class (normal sequence shortening with - allowed, and ^ at start to invert works)

From your terminal shell, ugrep by hackerb9 may also prove useful.

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