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Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: gmarsha11 <gary dot marshall at hp dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:07:16 -0700
- Subject: Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin
- References: <17764646.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
gmarsha11 wrote:
> then, `cat abc.txt` returns
>
> T h i s i s a b c f i l e
>
> Anyone know what might cause this?
What do you mean by "[backtick] returns"? Can you paste a full example
testcase? What is the file's encoding? If it's a unicode file with a
UTF-16 encoding then you would expect something like the above,
depending on how you're interpreting the output.
Brian
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