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From: ricks@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Silverstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Two files, same directory, same name...
Message-ID: <6240@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 90 16:18:03 GMT
References: <1990Jun15.090604.21916@dasys1.uucp>
Reply-To: ricks@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Silverstein)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <1990Jun15.090604.21916@dasys1.uucp> tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) writes:
>Below is an excerpt of a listing of my $HOME/News directory.
>
>-rw-r--r--  1 tbetz       12756 Jun 14 06:49 applied.gw   <-----
>-rw-r--r--  1 tbetz       64775 Jun 14 06:48 applied.gw   <-----
>
>You will note that there are two files with identical names.

You must have a non-printable control character in one of the names.

Try:
/bin/ls | cat -v

This will display the control character that ls is hiding from you.
Berkeley's ls (/usr/ucb/ls) will print a '?' for the control character.