directory error

[Rob O'Connor]

Hey everyone:
One of the user created a temp directory last week when he cd to the directory he receives error:
ksh: temp: not found
I cd to the the directory and receive the same message. Any ideas?
Thanks, much appreciated.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

What do you see if you do an 'll -b'? I would suspect that you have some sort of unprintable character in the directory name, something like a backspace probably.

[Umapathy S]

Check the name of the dir again. There may be some control chars embeded in the dir name. This happens when we accidently type control chars for mkdir.

try above the temp dir

ls >tmp.out

See in tmp.out any control chars embeded in temp.

HTH
Umapathy

[Helen French]

Go to the parent directory and post the output of:

# ls -al

Is the directory exist now? Are you giving complete path? Is there any extra (hidden) characters in the dir_name?

[Paul Sperry]

try cd tem*

[Rob O'Connor]

Thanks, all of you are right on the money. Was a backspace after te in temp.