Special characters in Files

[armylogman]

I am seeing in my S72inetsvc file and in my hosts file a ^I and don't know if or what this is or what it can cause to happen in the files if anyone knows I need some help.


Thanks in advance


Armylogman

 

[xkjdhdg]

The ^I is a tab delimiter it is required to read the file.
It will not hurt anything. Just DO NOT take it out or you will have problems.

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

If you are looking at this file using vi editor, then just typing this command set nolist) will interpret control-characters instead of printing them, your text is more readable this way.

command set list ) will put you back again with control-characters printed instead of interpreted, this way you see all characters that may disturb your text.

Ali