On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 04:32:26PM -0700, Fischer, Topher wrote: > My co-worker just discovered a file on one of our boxes that contains data, > but when you cat it, it looks like it's empty. > > Any ideas on what's going on here?
If it uses "\r" line endings (Mac style), it's possible that the terminal keeps on drawing over the same line. Could something like that be it? Do you have any more information about the data in the file? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
