On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Sarfraz Nawaz <sarfraz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom you are a legend! There were invisible characters at the start of
> the file which were not being shown with "head" and "cat". Removing
> them fixed the issue and copy worked like a charm. Thank you!
yup -- many utilities (especially on windows) are aware of BOM and
will suppress it. hexdump is a good way to catch it out. Ideally you
can disable BOM creation on whatever is producing your csv.
merlin
