Craig Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running RedHat Linux 9.0 > Linux version 2.4.20-6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version > 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Feb 27 10:06:59 EST 2003 > > I find that files which have names starting with the characters hp are > invisible to /bin/ls ( also to /usr/bin/find but not to /usr/bin/file > ). > > The following sequence should illustrate: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] craig]$ mkdir junk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] craig]$ cd junk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ >somefile > [EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ mkdir somedir > [EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ >hp > [EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ >hpsomefile > [EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ ls > somedir somefile > [EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ find . > . > ./somefile > ./somedir
That's very odd. I can't reproduce it. fileutils-4.0x is pretty old. Would you please try with a newer version of ls? STABLE ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) BETA ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
