Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:20:30 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> 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: <20020420102030.A6992@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3CC0954C.18B62401@cs.umu.se>; from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:08:12AM %2B0200 References: <3CC08E8E.B5EEEA90@cs.umu.se> <20020419174541.A47020@rochester.rr.com> <3CC0954C.18B62401@cs.umu.se>
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:08:12AM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote:
[...]
> fw# ls -l
> total 2
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 512 20 Mar 01:20 home
> fw#
>
> Doing a 'cat *' there gives the following result
> (edited somewhat by me: "UUU" means an active user
> and "uuu" means an user who has been removed):
> hE?
> ??.<8?
> ??..· "UUU"yF?
> ??"uuu"·???"UUU"-pF?¶?
> "UUU"fF????"UUU"lQ-gF????"UUU"mQ-:????"UUU"^F?
>
> ??w
> ww¦C?h?? "UUU"-C?T??"uuu"fw#
>
> Those "uuu" users, removed ones, are in no .his-
> tory as there are no history file in the directory
> /usr/home.
You are cat'ing the contents of the directory "home" and getting
binary output.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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