[NTLUG:Discuss] Need help debugging simple script commands

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  apropos hex editor

  lists the possible hex editors available on your machine.  the listing
given is the man pages for those programs

   probably hexdump is what you want to use to view the file

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Rick Matthews wrote:

> > man sed?
> 
> Oh yes, I've 'man sed' many times during this process!
> 
> > It's hard to tell what your garbage is without seeing it.
> 
> Yes sir, I believe you've hit on my point here. As mentioned earlier:
> 
> > > each time I've found trash I've added a step to clean out
> > > that problem. 
> 
> If I knew what the garbage was this would be a completely different
> discussion. The file is about 420,000 lines and 6.5 meg in size. I
> didn't know what trash was in there, or even if there *was* any
> trash in there. Since the -i allowed sort to remove the dups I'm
> assuming that trash *is* the problem, but I still don't know 
> what the trash is (or how much of it there is).
> 
> I'd appreciate any ideas you might have.
> 
> Rick
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