Hang the terminal when accessing some files

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I have an evidence in a DD image which has been capture from a osx machine, when is mounted I can access most of the file system but some files are hanging the terminal without an exit failure.

In my case, some files under SpotLight folder are hanging the terminal by just calling file , cat, or similar commands.

When the image is mounted on a OSX machine, this doesnt happen and the file can be access without any problems.

Is there a way to understand why some files dont return an error and find a possible solution to raise an exit code?