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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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