yes, corruption indeed, but i want to study why the program writes ^@ to this file. t. hiep -------------- next part -------------- On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 05:56:36AM -0700, Hiep Nguyen wrote: > hi all, i have centos 5 w/o gui. i can only have access via ssh. > > i have a text file that contains special (unprintable) characters, what > editor i can use to exam what those character are??? > > i use vi, but i don't know what is ^@ ^@ is the nul byte (zero byte). > may be an editor that can show ASCII as dec or hex. xxd, included with vi, can show you the hex dump followed by the ascii one, while hexedit allows you to edit the file either entering the hexadecimal value or the ascii one. Anyway, a text file with \000 is very unusual, maybe it got corrupted? -- lfr 0/0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080417/27b733be/attachment-0004.sig> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos