On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 06:34:45PM +0100, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote: > the hd one gives me, i think its the only two cat cases : > > 00000410 0a 6d 76 20 2d 2d 20 22 24 74 74 22 20 22 24 74 |.mv -- "$tt" > "$t| > 00000420 74 74 22 0a 0a 24 78 62 6c 70 70 20 3c 28 0a 20 |tt"..$xblpp > <(. | > 00000430 69 66 20 5b 5b 20 2d 73 20 24 74 20 5d 5d 20 3b |if [[ -s $t ]] > ;| > 00000440 20 74 68 65 6e 0a 20 20 63 61 74 20 2d 2d 20 22 | then. cat -- > "| > 00000450 24 74 22 0a 20 65 6c 69 66 20 5b 5b 20 2d 73 20 |$t". elif [[ > -s | > 00000460 24 74 32 20 5d 5d 20 3b 20 74 68 65 6e 0a 20 20 |$t2 ]] ; > then. | > 00000470 63 61 74 20 2d 2d 20 22 24 74 32 22 0a 20 65 6c |cat -- "$t2". > el| > 00000480 73 65 0a 20 20 6b 6f 70 69 2e 67 61 77 6b 20 22 |se. kopi.gawk > > i cant really see, i gotta first code me an own hexdump in gawk
If you're sure this is the file that's causing the problem, the next step is to figure out which *part* of the file is causing the problem. You're showing a hex dump of one part, but this part looks reasonable, at least as far as characters being within the expected ASCII range.