Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: $ ls -lrt total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list It looks like the file is not named RET bus RET instead. Quote the whitespace and you should be able to read/delete it. J. -- I wish I had been aware enough to

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread lina
On Thursday 27,September,2012 12:38 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: lina: $ ls -lrt total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list It looks like the file is not named RET bus RET instead. Quote the whitespace and you should be

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:33:42 PM lina wrote: $ ls -lrt total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list Look closer: there's a space you are overlooking. ls -ls RET might work, and ls -ls *RET will definitely work

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26/09/12 17:46, Neal Murphy wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:33:42 PM lina wrote: $ ls -lrt total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list Look closer: there's a space you are overlooking. ls -ls RET

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:48:38 PM Tony van der Hoff wrote: That's the main reason I always use a fixed-pitch font for CLI stuff and email. So why was your post HTML? Hoist on me own petard! I thought I had all that turned off long ago. It keeps sneaking back, though. -- To

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com writes: $ ls -lrt total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list $ ls -lrt RET ls: cannot access RET: No such file or directory $ cat RET cat: RET: No such file or directory $ rm RET rm: