Extra spaces in text files in cygwin
René Berber
r.berber@computer.org
Wed Jun 11 02:05:00 GMT 2008
René Berber wrote:
Oops!
> $ od -tx2z Document.txt
> 0000000 feff 0054 0068 0069 0073 0020 0069 0073 >..T.h.i.s. .i.s.<
> 0000020 0020 0061 0062 0063 0020 0066 0069 006c > .a.b.c. .f.i.l.<
> 0000040 0065 000d 000a >e.....<
> 0000046
>
> So your spaces are really null bytes (some fonts put little smileys), vi
> was wrong no CR in there.
Of course vi is right, I'm just not used to see nulls between characters.
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René Berber
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