Paul Abraham wrote:
sander.van.vugt@azlan.nl wrote:
always when I do something like grep 'root' * , my screen gives all rubbish. Why?
Possibly because grep finds the word root in object files as well as text files, and object files are not very printable.
Paul.
P.S. the quotes round root aren't actually necessary.
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