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Old 12-30-2014
Cat command not working to display Mac file in Ubuntu

Hi,

Recently I got a .txt file from Mac user. when I try to open it in my Ubuntu machine using cat command it is not displaying any content of file however I can see the content using vi.

Anyone know How to see its content using cat as I have to process it in my shell script.

Thanks in Advance.
 

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NAME
byobu-select-backend - select your default Byobu backend window manager SYNOPSIS
byobu-select-backend [screen|tmux] DESCRIPTION
byobu-select-backend is an application that lists the available Byobu backends and allows you to select your default. You can select one of either screen(1) or tmux(1) on the command line, or giving no command line parameters, the utility will run interac- tively. This utility will only affect which backend is used by default when simply running, byobu(1). Note that at any time, you can force the backend of a particular session by running the helpers, byobu-screen(1) or byobu-tmux(1). FILES
~/.byobu/backend SEE ALSO
byobu(1), byobu-screen(1), byobu-tmux(1), screen(1), tmux(1) http://launchpad.net/byobu AUTHOR
This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permis- sion is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation. The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt. byobu 30 Oct 2011 byobu-select-backend(1)
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