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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting @ character in vi editor Post 302465653 by ctsgnb on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 07:12:19 AM
Old 10-23-2010
Are you sure it in an ASCII format ?

run the command "file" on yourfile like this :

Code:
# file yourfile

Example :

Code:
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ file /users/home/ctsgnb/bin/ksh
/users/home/ctsgnb/bin/ksh: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, for FreeBSD 8.0 (800505), stripped
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$

here you can see that you are trying to dislay which in fact is an executable.

Your should then user the command strings instead of a cat or a vi ... (executable files or data files should not be edited with a text editor since they are binaries

Code:
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ strings /users/home/ctsgnb/bin/ksh | tail
;; res_nopt_rdata()
;; res_nopt()
;; res_opt()... ENDS0 DNSSEC
;; res_nmkquery(%s, %s, %s, %s)
$FreeBSD: src/lib/csu/amd64/crtn.S,v 1.6.30.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $
Service unavailable
RuneMagiNONE
0000000000000000
0123456789
FreeBSD
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$

 

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NAME

       gconf-editor - view and edit personal desktop configuration preferences

SYNOPSIS

       gconf-editor

DESCRIPTION

       The  GConf  Editor  application enables you to view and edit all of your current personal desktop preferences. The GConf Editor window pro-
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OPTIONS

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OPERANDS

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EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching GConf Editor

       example% gconf-editor

EXIT STATUS

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       0        Application exited successfully

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FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gconf-editor   Executable for GConf Editor.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

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SEE ALSO

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