Hi , All I wanted to do was to try to find the ASCII (Decimal) values of the characters of a(any) file in the quickest possible way. I needed it for some operation in the SCSI Mid level which does a particular set of operations based on ASCII values of the contents of a file. Its very easy to miss out the other characters (like /n etc) in a file, when you just vi it. Thanks hexdump helps! Sai --- JHolder <trs-knwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
