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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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times

times(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          times(1)

NAME

       times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       times

   ksh
       times

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.

   ksh
       Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.

       On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:

       1.  Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.

       2.  I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.

       3.  Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.

       4.  Words,  following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
           able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation  are  not
           performed.

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                           times(1)
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