Hi, are you using MSDOS/Windows anywhere here - it might be a trailing ^M which Windows uses before ^J as the end of line character.
Regards Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Christensen, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2003 15:50 To: 'Jay Blanchard'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Dickey, Dallas Subject: RE: Odd thing Just creating shell scripts with one line creating each file. This is our first attempt to see how working with the smaller files performs while transferring data between sites. -----Original Message----- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:43 AM To: Christensen, Dave; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dickey, Dallas Subject: RE: Odd thing [snip] We're trying to set up some scripts that will run mysqldump to create export files for each table in a database that can be downloaded to a test server and reloaded. What's weird is that the files are created with the "?" character as the trailing character in the file name and we can't open them to do anything with the files. [/snip] How are your creating them? Script language? Jay -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]