Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsedev!logan
From: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ghost file
Message-ID: <1239@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 88 15:38:27 GMT
References: <17529@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Organization: VSE Software Development Lab
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In article <17529@adm.BRL.MIL> ZAT011%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
(Thomas Heil) writes:
>I got a little problem with  a "ghost file". It appears when I  list the
>contents of  a directory, but  it can't be accessed  in any way

Have you looked to see if the filename contains control
characters?  The name might really be "filee^Hname" which would
look like "filename" in a directory listing.  To check for this,
type  

	ls -bl some_directory

and see if it prints an octal code in the file name.  (BSD
systems may have a different option letter for this.) 

			-Jim

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