ls and ll

[Michael_33]

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!

[Patrick Wallek]

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.

[Michael_33]

#ll -d abc*

"abc not found "

any idea?

[Sukant Naik]

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

[Michael_33]

this directory is not a nfs mount point

[Sukant Naik]

Hi Michael,

If it is not nfs mounted, then did you try

# ll *abc*

Please dont laugh....;-)

-Sukant

[Olav Baadsvik]

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

[Peter Kloetgen]

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

[Justo Exposito]

Hi Michael,

Try this:

file *
ls |od -c

And please put the results here.

Regards,

Justo.

[Michael Tully]

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.