Re: .bash_history

From: C. Chad Wallace (cwallace_at_thelodgingco.com)
Date: 11/22/05

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    Stephen Rueger wrote:
    > 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?

    I just ran into this as well... file reported it as "data". Upon viewing it in less, I found that it had a whole bunch of nulls (^@ is null, right?) in it. I don't know where those would have come from... 

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