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Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update
- From: Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web dot cs dot ndsu dot nodak dot edu>
- To: Thomas Wolff <towo at towo dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:59:35 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update
- References: <4B8BDC2C.20406@bonhard.uklinux.net> <4B8BE5A1.6000005@towo.net>
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Thomas Wolff wrote:
On 01.03.2010 16:24, Fergus wrote:
etc all to no avail. And also I see the / after the listing:
ls -al /m
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.5 0 Jan 1 1970 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.5 0 Jan 1 1970 ./
drwxr-xr-x 15 fergus ver_1.5 0 Jan 1 1970 ../
<etc etc>
These are not safe checks. I've got weird directory names created myself
which contained control characters that rendered invisible...
Do either of:
ls | od -ab
or
ls | od -t ax1
or
ls > ls
and inspect the output with a binary-transparent editor (e.g. mined :) )
ls -abF should work.
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