GNU bug report logs - #33774
glitch in cat

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Valentin Schild <valentinschild <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>

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From: Valentin Schild <valentinschild <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: glitch in cat
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:58:39 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hi,

somehow, when using cat to display a file's content, I get output to
the command line
The file to output contains
^[Z
like attached file "catbug".

In terminal I type
cat catbug

[catbug (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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