> -----Original Message-----
> From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [re] odd problem
> 
> 
> What about doing a hex dump of the file.  Maybe there are 
> some noprintable characters in the file that cat won't 
> show.
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:31:01 -0500
>   "Mike Bellemare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >$ cat /etc/hostname
> >
> >wolverine
> >
> >thanks for answering
> >
> >M.B
> >

Add -e to your cat command - that will show you the unprintable and end of
line chars

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