On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Package: coreutils >> Version: 6.10-6 >> Severity: normal >> File: /bin/cat >> >> Hi, >> >> I've got MySQL log files with queries that contain binary parts. When I use >> cat or tail to view those, my terminal gets messed up. >> Could cat not write binary chars (< 32) to the terminal? Replace them with >> another char that can be safely written. > > Use "cat -v".
Ah, nice. Wouldn't it be handy to enable that option automatically when the output is a terminal? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
