Information Technology Grimoire

Version .0.0.1

IT Notes from various projects because I forget, and hopefully they help you too.

hidden characters

See filenames

scripting or other reasons can cause weird characters.

  • create a file from ls
  • show the characters by reading the file
5762/7976MB     0.00 0.00 0.00 1/189 28350
[17029:16904 0:1988] 06:49:27 Sat Nov 26 [root@vhosts:/dev/pts/0 +1] ~
(1:1988)# cat -vet myls
total 160$
drwx------  8 root root  4096 Nov 26 18:49 ./$
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root  4096 Nov 21 13:00 ../$
-rw-------  1 root root 64347 Nov 26 14:45 .bash_history$
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   903 Nov  7  2019 .bashrc$
drwx------  2 root root  4096 Jan 28  2019 .cache/$
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     0 Nov 21 13:00 .cloud-locale-test.skip$
drwx------  3 root root  4096 Jan 28  2019 .gnupg/$
-rw-------  1 root root    95 Jan 30  2019 .mysql_history$
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   148 Aug 17  2015 .profile$
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    75 Jan 28  2019 .selected_editor$
drwx------  2 root root  4096 Oct 29 08:15 .ssh/$
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Nov 26  2020 .vim/$
-rw-------  1 root root 30566 Oct  6 14:15 .viminfo$
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   185 Nov 26 18:25 .wget-hsts$
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan 11  2020 somesite.com/$
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1439 Feb  7  2019 halo.sh$
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    99 Mar  8  2022 id_ed25519.pub$
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     0 Nov 26 18:49 myls$
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan 11  2020 workerboost.com/$