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From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about cat command
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 03:14:32 -0700
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Likely it is piping the filesystem data for the directory to stdout, which 
would be unreadable to humans. Technically, that would be doing what it is 
supposed to do, much like if you `cat` a binary file.
It may be better to make it cat all the files in that directory, but that 
wouldn't really be very useful as you can do that by adding a few other 
commands, and it could take a very long time if it were executed for, say, 
'/usr'.

>hihi all,
>
>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???
>
>Rgds,
>AMI
>
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