> OK, I should have RTFM man first. > ls -lab show the file name to be "\ \ " so I have now answered my own > question.
> Sorry for the noise (back into my box) I didn't know about the -b flag to ls so I found this informative. My traditional way of doing it (which also comes in handy in non-ls situations) is to pipe the output into cat -vet. $ ls -la | cat -vet which will show end of line as $, and show unprintable characters and tabs. I like those options to cat; I always think of it as "take your cat to the vet" :) cat -vet is very handy in finding mystery characters in config files and makefiles as well. Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
