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Re: bug with head


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: bug with head
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:40:02 -0700
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According to François Civet on 3/5/2010 7:24 AM:
> Dear bug reporter,
> I found a bug with the head command.
> while opening an ACSII file with the command:
> head file *

This command passes the name of all files in the current directory,
including any binary files.

> the interface of my gnome-terminal shows non-ASCII characters.

To be expected, if any of those files had non-ASCII contents.  But that
does not make it a bug in head.

Perhaps you wanted 'head file', rather than 'head file *'?

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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