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RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 16:28:07 +0100
- Subject: RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not
----Original Message----
>From: Ross b
>Sent: 10 May 2005 16:17
>
> I'm wondering if something else happened in the renaming
> script. Is it possible there is a space (or some other
> non-printable character) as the first character of the file
> names? The output on a couple of messages leads me to
> believe so. When I do an "ls -l", there is only one space
> between the date and the file name, in Charles's output,
> there are two. I'd be interested to see the output of:
>
> ls \ *
"ls -q" is the way to detect non-printing chars in filenames. But I'm not
convinced it's very likely.
cheers,
DaveK
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