Dear Craig Bourne,
I am unable to reproduce the problem on a stock Red Hat 9 installation.
First, are you sure you're running Red Hat 9.0 (I'm sorry if this sounds dumb)? The system I'm on has kernel version 2.4.20-18.9, not 2.4.20-6, and was compiled on May 29, 2003, not on Feb 27.
ls --version gives:
ls (coreutils) 4.5.3
with a copyright date of 2002, not version 4.0x with a copyright date of 2000 as in your distribution.
And find --version gives 4.1.7, not 4.1 as in your distribution.
It would be great if you'd check against a newer version, ideally off of the CVS head if you're comfortable checking it out. (I'm running 5.0.92, off of the CVS head).
--Steve Augart
| Craig Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/2003 08:16 PM
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: bug in /bin/ls |
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ file *
hp: empty
hpsomefile: empty
somedir: directory
somefile: empty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ rm hp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ ls
somedir somefile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ file *
hpsomefile: empty
somedir: directory
somefile: empty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ mkdir hp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ mkdir hpsomedir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ ls
somedir somefile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ find .
.
./somefile
./somedir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ file *
hp: directory
hpsomedir: directory
hpsomefile: empty
somedir: directory
somefile: empty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ which -a find
/usr/bin/find
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ which -a file
/usr/bin/file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ which -a ls
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
/bin/ls
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ which ls
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
/bin/ls
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ ls --version
ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0x
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ find --version
GNU find version 4.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] junk]$ file --version
file-3.39
magic file from /usr/share/magic
Let me know if I can be of further help with diagnosis of this problem.
Best Regards,
Craig Bourne
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