On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:45:16AM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Warron S French wrote: > > Philip, are you saying that if you are using VI in editor mode and turn on > > set list to make sure that a $ is in the first column as opposed to " $" > > in the first two columns? > > That sounds like a reasonable way to check for trailing whitespace and > other special characters, yes.
I go low-tech in circumstances like this, and use 'od' or 'hexdump'. Unrelated to OP's problem, I've seen LDIF files that had UTF8 characters and/or weird EOL characters, that many editors will helpfully hide from you. > Philip -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large
