Re: how is it possible

Likely there are "non-printing" characters in the name of the file...

To see them, try "ls -alt | od -c | more". To view, rename, or delete the file, use wildcards...

> This happening with me 3 rd time on this hp box . When I
> do ls -alt I can see a file in current directory but when
> I try to open it (vi/cat ) it says no such file or
> directory . I am same user who created the file . ( no
> permission problem )
> Any idea ??
>
> -ak
>
>
>
>
>
> /home/ak/myscripts/shell_scr $ ls -alt
> total 4
> drwxrwxrwx 2 ak dba 96 Oct 23 14:40 .
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 ak dba 412 Oct 23 14:40
> mon_scr drwxr-x--- 10 ak dba 1024 Oct 13
> 16:07 ..
> /home/ak/myscripts/shell_scr $ cat mon_scr
> cat: Cannot open mon_scr: No such file or directory
>
> /home/ak/myscripts/shell_scr $ cat ./mon_scr
> cat: Cannot open ./mon_scr: No such file or directory
>
> /home/ak/myscripts/shell_scr $
>
> /home/ak/shell_scr $ whoami
> ak
>
>

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