Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:27:10 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: AMI Root <amiroot@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about cat command Message-ID: <20020129172710.U823@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <20020129060826.17449.qmail@web9607.mail.yahoo.com>; from amiroot@yahoo.com on Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:08:26PM %2B0800 References: <20020129060826.17449.qmail@web9607.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:08:26PM +0800, AMI Root wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD4.4 on a P5-166 machine with 64MB > Ram. I found that I can "cat" a directory and it will > list garbage. Is it a bug or I made anything wrong??? Cat will display any file, wether it's a binary or not. Directories are nothing more than binary files. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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