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Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin


René Berber wrote:

Oops!

$ od -tx2z Document.txt
0000000 feff 0054 0068 0069 0073 0020 0069 0073  >..T.h.i.s. .i.s.<
0000020 0020 0061 0062 0063 0020 0066 0069 006c  > .a.b.c. .f.i.l.<
0000040 0065 000d 000a                           >e.....<
0000046

So your spaces are really null bytes (some fonts put little smileys), vi was wrong no CR in there.

Of course vi is right, I'm just not used to see nulls between characters. -- René Berber


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