Re: .bash_history

From: Stephen Rueger (stephen.rueger_at_rechnerpost.org)
Date: 11/22/05

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Date:  Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:06:47 +0100

    Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> writes:

    >This used to work until recently when I found that the .bash_history had
    >been transformed into a data file, instead of the ASCII text that I was
    >used to.

    How exactly did you find that out? If it's merely because grep says
    something like "binary file .bash_history matches", chances are that
    its rather stupid binary file detection screwed up again.

    So, what does looking at it with a pager show? And what does file(1) report? 

    -- 
Stephen Rüger
stephen.rueger@rechnerpost.org
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