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From: aindiana@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Daiv Stoner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Two files, same directory, same name...
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.174029.25290@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 90 17:40:29 GMT
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ricks@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Silverstein) writes:

>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.

I believe "l -b" will also show you the strange char.

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