Linux: Display / Show File Contents (tabs, line breaks, non-printing characters) - Comment Page: 1
I write before guide, howto create file on Linux shell / command line without text editor (with cat command) and this is guick tip howto display / show file contents (tabs, line-breaks, non-printing characters (ASCII control characters: octal 000 - 037)) and display all on Linux shell / command line. This is very useful when you want to know the entire contents of the file.
Example file
I use /tmp/testing.txt example file on this guide. File is created simply with following command:
printf 'testing\012\011\011testing\014\010\012more testing\012\011\000\013\000even more testing\012\011\011\011\012' > /tmp/testing.txt
Show / Display File Contents on Linux Shell / Command...
Very interesting, thanks