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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com