ls -l error

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

Hello All,

I came across a strange scenario. When i do a long listing on a directory it gives me the files.
However, when i do long listing on a file in that directory, it says no file found.


#pwd
/u02/TST/olapex

#ls -ltr
total 17204
-rwx------ 1 oratst dba 209117 Oct 30 06:56 FPAPJP.eif
-rwx------ 1 oratst dba 8485638 Oct 30 07:38 ODPCODE.eif
-rwx------ 1 oratst dba 2247440 Oct 30 07:39 XWDEVKIT.eif
-rwx------ 1 oratst dba 6610847 Oct 30 07:42 ZPBCODE.eif

#ll ZPBCODE.eif
ls: ZPBCODE.eif: No such file or directory


I tried creating a new file and list it. It works fine. But the above 4 files seem to be nonexistent.

These files are under a local FS and i am working under the directory /u02/TST/olapex

I am not able to figure out the issue here.

Please help

Sunny

[Lovro VRES · Accepted solution]

Hello,

is it possible that there are some "hidden" character in the name of the file, so the real name is not only the name you can see.

Try ls -l | xd or ls -l | xd -c and you will be able to seeif there is any special character.

Also using bash can help.

Regards,
Lovro

[R.K. #]

Hi..

May be these filenames contain some special character.
Try with:
# ll ZPBCODE*

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

I am using bash shell.

Yes, you both are right... the filename has special characters.


#ls -l ZPBCODE.eif*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 6610847 Nov 5 07:42 ZPBCODE.eif


ls -l | xd doesn't work

what is xd. There is no man page for xd.

How can i find out the special characters in the filename.

Sunny

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

check the man pages 'man ls':
Options:
-b List nonprinting characters in the octal \ddd notation.

So use 'ls -b'

Another possibility is the file manager.
It shows such characters, too.

HTH
Volkmar

[V. Nyga]

Or:

-q List nonprinting characters in file names as the character (?).

V.

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

#ls -lb
total 17200
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 209117 Nov 5 07:42 FPAPJP.eif\
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 8485638 Nov 5 07:42 ODPCODE.eif\
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 2247440 Nov 5 07:42 XWDEVKIT.eif\
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 6610847 Nov 5 07:42 ZPBCODE.eif\


#ls -lq
total 17200
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 209117 Nov 5 07:42 FPAPJP.eif
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 8485638 Nov 5 07:42 ODPCODE.eif
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 2247440 Nov 5 07:42 XWDEVKIT.eif
-rwxrwxrwx 1 orabig dba 6610847 Nov 5 07:42 ZPBCODE.eif

[V. Nyga]

Hi again,

there seems to be a ' ' (space) at the end.
Do you have an application which takes access to these files?
Else you can rename it or leave it as it is.

V.

[Dennis Handly]

>ls -l | xd doesn't work

You need "xd -c". Or you can use vis: ll | vis -t

Or as Volkmar said, use "ls -b".

>what is xd? There is no man page for xd.

Sure there is, right there with od(1):
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/od.1.html

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

Thanks everyone.

There was a blank space after the filename