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?

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