----Original Message---- >From: Ross b >Sent: 10 May 2005 16:17 > > I'm wondering if something else happened in the renaming > script. Is it possible there is a space (or some other > non-printable character) as the first character of the file > names? The output on a couple of messages leads me to > believe so. When I do an "ls -l", there is only one space > between the date and the file name, in Charles's output, > there are two. I'd be interested to see the output of: > > ls \ *
"ls -q" is the way to detect non-printing chars in filenames. But I'm not convinced it's very likely. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/