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.
-- 
René Berber


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