From: Yoho, Cindy (cyoho@umpublishing.org)
Date: Wed May 31 2006 - 12:12:15 EDT
Well, that was a very fast response from you all. I'm not sure how I missed the -b on ls all this time. Thanks!
ls -b shows the unprintable characters. Also suggested were
piping it through xd -c
piping it through od -c
and a helpful suggestion for removing it by using find on the inode.
Thanks again.
Cindy
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From: hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl [mailto:hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl]On Behalf Of Yoho, Cindy
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:49 AM
To: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
Subject: [HPADM] invisible characters in filename
Hi Folks,
Two in one week...sorry to abuse my privileges but does anyone know of a way to display a filename that has invisible characters in it? I have 2 files with the same name but different timestamps in the same directory. Obviously one has one or more characters attached to it that are not being displayed. This is confirmed when I do an ls -al on the exact filename, as only one of them is listed. If I put a * on the end though, I get them both. I have had this happen before and just deleted the weird one by renaming or moving the good file and then removing the bad one with the * on the end, but I may not be able to do that this time.
Thanks in advance~
Cindy Yoho
United Methodist Publishing
Nashville, Tennessee
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