Oracle-L: Re: how is it possible

From: Ron Thomas <rthomas_at_hypercom.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:04:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D4230.20031023160434@fatcity.com>

This generally happens when there is a CTL-H embedded in the filename. Try

mv *m* anotherfilename

You should be able to get at it after that.

Ron Thomas
Hypercom, Inc
rthomas_at_hypercom.com
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan

                                                                                                                                                  
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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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