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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