Andrew McNabb wrote:
> 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?
>
The contents of the file seem to be unrelated. The contents are just
'root', and I can see with hexdump that there are no other contents:
00000000 72 6f 6f 74 |root|
00000004
SELinux is disabled.
I can see the contents with vim, less, hexdump, etc. But I can't see
them with cat. I cannot see them if I do:
perl -e "print while <>;" filename
I'm baffled.
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