[Novalug] Messed up file title problem

Geoff McNamara geoffm@companionway.net
Mon Mar 22 11:45:16 EDT 2010


or
ls | cat -v
or
ls | cat -vet
These will list filenames with all the characters "visible".



> I pipe output to hexdump -- e.g.,
>   ls | hexdump -C | less
>
> That will show the hex next to the character, including the hex
> value for the non-printable characters (displayed as ".").
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> From: "cmhowe@patriot.net" <cmhowe@patriot.net>
>
> Many thanks to all the people who have responded. Over the next day or two
> I will experiment a bit. I had supposed that in both case the problem
> really and truly was a misplaced space. Now I concede that they might be
> unprintable characters. I think I recall that there is a way of displaying
> them. I'll let the List know.
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