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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unexplained text in data files Post 302951992 by Corona688 on Wednesday 12th of August 2015 11:54:00 AM
Old 08-12-2015
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Originally Posted by SRoberts
I examined it in detail to ensure there was no reference to the files being compromised.
How exactly are these files being written to, by what?

There doesn't need to be a reference to their names, necessarily. Redirection from outside can cause them to write to it without having to tell it. This is my concern particularly since this looks like an unintended result of redirecting stderr into stdout.
Last edited by Corona688; 08-12-2015 at 01:06 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

ppmtopgm

ppmtopgm(1)                                                   General Commands Manual                                                  ppmtopgm(1)

NAME

       ppmtopgm - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtopgm [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as  input.  Produces a portable graymap as output.  The output is a "black and white" rendering of the original
       image, as in a black and white photograph.  The quantization formula used is .299 r + .587 g + .114 b.

       Note that although there is a pgmtoppm program, it is not necessary for simple conversions from pgm to ppm , because any  ppm  program  can
       read  pgm  (and  pbm  ) files automatically.  pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm file.  Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting
       color to gray.  And ppmdist generates a grayscale image from a color image, but in a way that makes it easy to differentiate  the  original
       colors, not necessarily a way that looks like a black and white photograph.

QUOTE

       Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
       Removes the colors from our sight
       Red is gray, and yellow white
       But we decide which is right
       And which is a quantization error.

SEE ALSO

       pgmtoppm(1),ppmtorgb3(1),rgb3toppm(1),ppmdist(1),ppm(5),pgm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

                                                                   10 April 2000                                                       ppmtopgm(1)
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