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Old 02-25-2014
What happens when i write on terminal "cat /bin/ls" ?
i all, i'm trying to understand a code, i see this line

cat /bin/ls

that have a strange output...can someone explain me what is it?
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Old 02-25-2014
That command wil print the content of the binary file /bin/ls . This will result in gibberish.
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Old 02-25-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marina2013
Code:
cat /bin/ls

that have a strange output...can someone explain me what is it?
If you want to have less "gibberish" output you could use a hex-dumper:

Code:
od -ax /bin/ls | more

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 
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