On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:13:45 -0500, Michael Babcock wrote: >-bash-4.3# ls -lTHE trace_large.log > >t UTF-8 T=on -rw-r----- --s- ---- 1 BPXROOT SOFT1 20971432 >Apr 8 07:40 trace_large.log > >-bash-4.3# od -tx1 trace_large.log | head >0000000000 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A >* >0000000120 0A 70 72 6F 64 75 63 74 20 3D 20 57 41 53 20 46 > ... Looks like ASCII data, perhaps UTF-8, 20971432 bytes, starting with a line of 80 asterisks. What do you see with: iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 trace_large.log | head
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