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Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update


On 01.03.2010 16:24, Fergus wrote:
...
>> Are you sure the directory name is really "."?

Yes. I tried various mechanisms for testing this such as

dir ". "
rename ". " "mydir"

etc all to no avail. And also I see the / after the listing:

ls -al /m
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  14 fergus ver_1.5    0 Jan  1  1970 ./
drwxr-xr-x  14 fergus ver_1.5    0 Jan  1  1970 ./
drwxr-xr-x  15 fergus ver_1.5    0 Jan  1  1970 ../
<etc etc>
These are not safe checks. I've got weird directory names created myself which contained control characters that rendered invisible...

Do either of:
    ls | od -ab
or
    ls | od -t ax1
or
    ls > ls
and inspect the output with a binary-transparent editor (e.g. mined :) )

Thomas

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