Corruption from FFIND?

May 20, 2008
12,167
133
Syracuse, NY, USA
I issue:
Code:
ffind /e"." /m /s c:\windows\system32\*.log

The first few files returned are OK.
1523750617116.png


But then it finds
1523750669790.png

That's a rather odd file, being a mixture of binary, ASCII, and Unicode. The one (?) line printed goes on for, apparently, a little more that 4096 characters.

The next file found has this name:
1523750129782.png


The rest of the files found have similarly corrupted named. When I get back to the prompt, the prompt itself is corrupted, as well as much other output.
1523750523474.png
 
May 20, 2008
12,167
133
Syracuse, NY, USA
This is probably the same thing you've reported before - you've got an ANSI sequence in one of your binary files.
I can understand that corrupting my prompt. But how would it corrupt other output, like that (last pic above) of SET and WHICH?
 
May 20, 2008
12,167
133
Syracuse, NY, USA
Probably because you're changing the character set (ESC N or ESC O). See your numerous previous messages on the same subject.

Indeed! After things are fouled up, I can set it straight again with
Code:
echo ^e(B
Thanks.
 
Dec 29, 2009
48
1
Atlanta, GA
Ah HA!

Something similar happened to me a few weeks back, but I didn't remember the details of what I had done so I couldn't reproduce it. It didn't happen again, so, while mystifying, it fell "off my radar."

Mystery solved!
 

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