Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:45:41 -0400 From: mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cat: A bug or just as it should be? Message-ID: <20020419174541.A47020@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3CC08E8E.B5EEEA90@cs.umu.se>; from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:39:26PM %2B0200 References: <3CC08E8E.B5EEEA90@cs.umu.se>
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:39:26PM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Hi all! > > I have the following directory structure: > /usr/home/home/'users'/'users files' > > When in /usr/home/home, as root, doing 'cat *' > I get very strange output. It's a lot of not > viewable characters, but also file names of > existing files in /usr/home/home/'users' and > in /usr/home/home/'users'/'users files'. The > strangest of all is that even files that has > been removed shows up. > > Is this reproduceable on other computers run- > ning 4.5-RELEASE as well? Is it a bug in cat, > or is this a normal behaveiour? That's what happens when you cat directories or binary files. The removed filenames may just be from history files or other things that keep track of things like that. > > Best regards, > Paul > mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "HI BATMAN! DO YOU WANT SOME ARCTIC CIRCLE-CANDY? - Little Girl from "BATMAN" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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