Two files, same directory, same name...

[Ronald Pikkert]

>From article <1990Jun15.090604.21916 at dasys1.uucp>, by tbetz at 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?


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