Characters don't display correctly when I cat a file.

[Joe Saladino]

When I cat a file, the characters don't display correctly.  One letter is on the right side of the window and the remaining characters in that line are on the next line.  See the attached screenshot.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Thanks

Joe

[Joe Saladino]

Screenshot didn't make it the first time.  Thanks.

[Adrian Bool]

Hi Joe

Perhaps some unexpected control characters have managed to sneak into your file?

If you could share either the original file or the output of "xxd <filename>" — which can be used to see if there are any unexpected chars — that may help?

Kind regards,

aid

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[Adrian Bool]

Hi Joe,

Looks like your bash file has a good amount of tab indentation and that you've upped the tab character with from the default of 8 to something like like 16.  This just happens to make the first visible character on some of your lines to be rendered in the last column of the window - with the rest of the line wrapping round.

The tab width can be set in iTerm's preferences within the Advanced tab - use the search bar in there to look for "default tab":

In the above screenshot I've set my iTerm to use a tab with of 16; which gives me the following output of your file in a standard 80 column window:

Just like yours!

Try setting the tab width to 8; reopen a new iTerm window and see if you file is displaying cleanly.

Kind regards

aid

[Joe Saladino]

Ok. Thx so much for your help!

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On Sep 26, 2022, at 1:25 AM, Adrian Bool <a...@logic.org.uk> wrote:

Hi Joe,

Looks like your bash file has a good amount of tab indentation and that you've upped the tab character with from the default of 8 to something like like 16.  This just happens to make the first visible character on some of your lines to be rendered in the last column of the window - with the rest of the line wrapping round.

The tab width can be set in iTerm's preferences within the Advanced tab - use the search bar in there to look for "default tab":

In the above screenshot I've set my iTerm to use a tab with of 16; which gives me the following output of your file in a standard 80 column window:

Just like yours!

Try setting the tab width to 8; reopen a new iTerm window and see if you file is displaying cleanly.

Kind regards

aid

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