sai narasimhamurthy said: > Is there a Linux Command which will display the file > contents in ASCII?? > This is quite a vague question. It depends on what you are trying to do. If it is a file that only contains ASCII characters use one of the following commands: cat, more, less or most. Check the man pages. man cat If the file is binary, ie it contains printable and nonprintable characters try hexdump -C <filename>. That gives the hex values and the printable ascii characters are printed. If you are trying to see a file that contains some language which does not use ASCII characters (chinese for instance). The quickest thing to do would be to open it using a browser like mozilla, and then changing the encoding to match the desired characters. Good Luck, John -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
