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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Weird ? symbol coming through-sending text file Post 302652733 by methyl on Thursday 7th of June 2012 04:09:39 PM
Old 06-07-2012
Please tell us something about your computer and the data:
What Operating System and version are you using?
Code:
uname -a # Blotting anything confidential with X's

What Shell are you running:
Code:
echo "${SHELL}"

Assuming that the problem is in every record, please post the output from this command which is designed to make unprintable characters visible:
Code:
head -3 filename.txt | sed -n l      # Again blotting anything confidential with X's

99% of the time funny characters come from Microsoft platforms. Is Microsoft involved in this problem?


At a technical level, please detail the process trying to send a text file through Unix mentioning any database engines or other relevant detail.



Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Moving post to Shell Scripting forum because O/P has not mentioned an Application and this issue needs a wider audience

Last edited by methyl; 06-07-2012 at 05:25 PM.. Reason: my spellling!
 

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NM(1)							      General Commands Manual							     NM(1)

NAME
nm - name list (symbol table) SYNOPSIS
nm [ -aghnsu ] file ... DESCRIPTION
Nm prints the name list of each executable or object file in the argument list. If the file is an archive (see ar(1)), the name list of each file in the archive is printed. If more than one file is given in the argument list, the name of each file is printed at the begin- ning of each line. Each symbol name is preceded by its hexadecimal value (blanks if undefined) and one of the letters T text segment symbol t static text segment symbol L leaf function text segment symbol l static leaf function text segment symbol D data segment symbol d static data segment symbol B bss segment symbol b static bss segment symbol a automatic (local) variable symbol p function parameter symbol z source file name Z source file line offset f source file name components The output is sorted alphabetically. Options are: -a Print all symbols; normally only user-defined text, data, and bss segment symbols are printed. -g Print only global (T, L, D, B) symbols. -h Do not print file name headers with output lines. -n Sort according to the address of the symbols. -s Don't sort; print in symbol-table order. -u Print only undefined symbols. SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/nm.c SEE ALSO
ar(1), 2l(1), db(1), acid(1), a.out(6) NM(1)
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