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Not an answer, just a comment that youYou can see special characters in a file with "od -c filename"od -c filename. Newlines will look like /n\n. If Windows or source control changed the newlines, you will see /r/n\r\n using od -cod -c, but you won't see anything different with catcat. You can use "dos2unix filename"dos2unix filename to repair those.

Sometimes you will see a sequence of control characters that cat would print out to look like a "-" or some other valid character.

Not an answer, just a comment that you can see special characters in a file with "od -c filename". Newlines will look like /n. If Windows or source control changed the newlines, you will see /r/n using od -c, but you won't see anything different with cat. You can use "dos2unix filename" to repair those.

Sometimes you will see a sequence of control characters that cat would print out to look like a "-" or some other valid character.

You can see special characters in a file with od -c filename. Newlines will look like \n. If Windows or source control changed the newlines, you will see \r\n using od -c, but you won't see anything different with cat. You can use dos2unix filename to repair those.

Sometimes you will see a sequence of control characters that cat would print out to look like a "-" or some other valid character.

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Not an answer, just a comment that you can see special characters in a file with "od -c filename". Newlines will look like /n. If Windows or source control changed the newlines, you will see /r/n using od -c, but you won't see anything different with cat. SometimesYou can use "dos2unix filename" to repair those.

Sometimes you will see a sequence of control characters that cat would print out to look like a "-" or some other valid character.

Not an answer, just a comment that you can see special characters in a file with "od -c filename". Newlines will look like /n. If Windows or source control changed the newlines, you will see /r/n using od -c, but you won't see anything different with cat. Sometimes you will see a sequence of control characters that cat would print out to look like a "-" or some other valid character.

Not an answer, just a comment that you can see special characters in a file with "od -c filename". Newlines will look like /n. If Windows or source control changed the newlines, you will see /r/n using od -c, but you won't see anything different with cat. You can use "dos2unix filename" to repair those.

Sometimes you will see a sequence of control characters that cat would print out to look like a "-" or some other valid character.

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Not an answer, just a comment that you can see special characters in a file with "od -c filename". Newlines will look like /n. If Windows or source control changed the newlines, you will see /r/n using od -c, but you won't see anything different with cat. Sometimes you will see a sequence of control characters that cat would print out to look like a "-" or some other valid character.