Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!kunivv1!atcmpe!ronald From: ronald@atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Two files, same directory, same name... Message-ID: <621@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> Date: 15 Jun 90 15:37:04 GMT References: <1990Jun15.090604.21916@dasys1.uucp> Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 24 From article <1990Jun15.090604.21916@dasys1.uucp>, by tbetz@dasys1.uucp (Tom Betz): > Below is an excerpt of a listing of my $HOME/News directory. > > total 206 > -rw-r--r-- 1 tbetz 0 Dec 3 1988 .comsignature > drwxr-xr-x 11 tbetz 176 Oct 18 1988 alt/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 tbetz 12756 Jun 14 06:49 applied.gw <----- > -rw-r--r-- 1 tbetz 64775 Jun 14 06:48 applied.gw <----- > drwxr-xr-x 5 tbetz 80 Sep 24 1988 ca/ > > > You will note that there are two files with identical names. > Run your ls output through od of use ls -lb to check for any invisable (but present) characters in the filenames. Are you sure that vi didn't warn about non-ascii characters in your ls file? - Ronald Pikkert E-mail: ronald@atcmp.nl @ AT Computing b.v. Tel: 080 - 566880 Toernooiveld 6525 ED Nijmegen