tags 33774 notabug close 33774 stop On 12/16/18 8:58 PM, Valentin Schild wrote: > somehow, when using cat to display a file's content, I get output to > the command line > The file to output contains > ^[Z > like attached file "catbug". > > In terminal I type > cat catbug
That's the point: the terminal treats some control characters specially, and therefore does not display them. Your file contains 3 bytes: - octal 33, - a 'Z', and - octal 12 (=newline): od -to1z catbug 0000000 033 132 012 >.Z.< 0000003 And cat(1) is exactly writing that to the terminal: $ strace -ve write cat catbug write(1, "\33Z\n", 3) = 3 +++ exited with 0 +++ As there seems nothing to be wrong in 'cat', I'm marking this as not a bug in our bug tracker. Of course, discussion on this may continue, and we may even re-open this issue if needed. Have a nice day, Berny
