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I want to display lines containing blank lines and special characters (?#!%#). i used grep command for special characters but its not working for blank line.

grep -n '[]?#!*%[]' file

if someone can please try this one? Thank you

semi abbasi
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You can specify multiple patterns with -e options, so in addition to the present pattern you can give another one for lines containing nothing but blanks:

grep -n -e '[]?#!*%[]' -e '^ *$' file
Armali
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