topic Re: ls and ll in Operating System - HP-UX

ls and ll

Michael_33 — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 03:46:50 GMT

Hi all,

I cd /user123, when I do a #ls, there is a file or directory called abc, but when I #ll abc
it said," not found", how come?

#file abc
got " can not open"

Any ideas?
Thanks!

Re: ls and ll

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 03:55:48 GMT

The directory was probably created with some unprintable characters at the end of it.

Try doing an

# ll abc*

and you will probably be able to see the contents of the directory.

#ll -d abc*

Will show the details of the directory itself.

Re: ls and ll

Michael_33 — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 04:00:48 GMT

#ll -d abc*

"abc not found "

any idea?

Re: ls and ll

Sukant Naik — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 04:10:46 GMT

Hi,

Is this directory a nfs mount point?

I have faced this problem, when I am doing a nfs mount and not able to use ll command.

The solution is unmount the filesystem and mount it again.

-Sukant

Re: ls and ll

Michael_33 — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 04:18:04 GMT

this directory is not a nfs mount point

Re: ls and ll

Sukant Naik — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 04:24:10 GMT

Hi Michael,

If it is not nfs mounted, then did you try

# ll *abc*

Please dont laugh....;-)

-Sukant

Re: ls and ll

Olav Baadsvik — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 05:37:09 GMT

Hi,Let us assume that your problem is that you have strange characters as
part of the file-name.

To a certain degree you can check this using this method:

cd /user123
ls -li > lsi.out
vi lsi.out
In vi give this command: :set list
You will then see special characters like space, tab etc.

Still assuming that strange characters is the problem, you may
correct it in this way:

cd /user123
ls -li
In the first column you will see the inode-number for abc
You then use this inode-value in find to change the name abc
to something new:
find . -inum -xdev -exec mv {} newabc \;

Regards
Olav

Re: ls and ll

Peter Kloetgen — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 06:30:39 GMT

Hi Michael,

you mentioned that ls shows you abc but ll abc does not work. Does ls abc show you the file/directory?

Did you try ll *a*b*c* as well?

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

Re: ls and ll

Justo Exposito — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:35:51 GMT

Hi Michael,

Try this:

file *
ls |od -c

And please put the results here.

Regards,

Justo.

Re: ls and ll

Michael Tully — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:48:07 GMT

I've seen this problem before when you may have execute permissions for the directory but not read permissions. It could also be that the permissions were changed after you changed into that directory.