UNIX

I was using a grep & awk statement to parse out filesize information from an ftp serverand noticed and unusual thing. A string concatenated to this output would disappear partially. Something hidden and invisible was eating up text. The systems administrator identified it as the chupacabra. I had incorrectly assumed it was the Yeti or a carriage return character.

anyhoo, a little bit of dos2unix killed the critter. And once the beast was dead, there was much rejoicing in Yephtaphee shire