Re: how is it possible

From: Mike Killough <mwkillough_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:49:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D4233.20031023164926@fatcity.com>

It could have unprintable characters in the name. You can do ls -m, then rename the file.

$ ls -m
mytest1.lis, mytest.lis , mytest2.lis

$ mv "mytest.lis " mytest.lis

>From: "AK" <oramagic_at_hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: how is it possible
>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:49:24 -0800
>
>This happening with me 3 rd time on this hp box . When I do ls -alt I can
>see a file in current directory but when I try to open it (vi/cat ) it says
>no such file or directory . I am same user who created the file . ( no
>permission problem )
>
>Any idea ??
>
>-ak
>
>
>
>
>
>/home/ak/myscripts/shell_scr $ ls -alt
>total 4
>drwxrwxrwx 2 ak dba 96 Oct 23 14:40 .
>-rwxrwxrwx 1 ak dba 412 Oct 23 14:40 mon_scr
>drwxr-x--- 10 ak dba 1024 Oct 13 16:07 ..
>
> /home/ak/myscripts/shell_scr $ cat mon_scr
>cat: Cannot open mon_scr: No such file or directory
>
> /home/ak/myscripts/shell_scr $ cat ./mon_scr
>cat: Cannot open ./mon_scr: No such file or directory
>
>/home/ak/myscripts/shell_scr $
>
>/home/ak/shell_scr $ whoami
>ak
>

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Received on Thu Oct 23 2003 - 19:49:26 CDT