On Thursday 03 September 2009 23:56:49 Alan E. Davis wrote:
> This is my personal working directory, under git control to carry it around
> between computers on a flash drive.  Now stripped of git.  I am reluctant
>  to send it along, but I could send a tarball to someone who is willing to
>  check on it.  It's 300M.
> 
> I moved ./mozilla out of the way.  The problem persists.
> 
> I found one ampersand in a file name, and changed it.  No happiness.
> 
> Don't know how to find a filename with a space at the end.  Is there a tool
> to find hosed filenames?

Not really, it's a tricky problem - the computer doesn't know what "hosed" 
could mean as it's stupid and doesn't assign significance to things (that's a 
human trait).

ls -al *' '

does the trick

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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