On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:08:47AM -0400, Alan Corey wrote:

> This is in 5.7 but I don't understand how it could happen (and I never
> noticed it before).  Two files in the same directory with the same
> name, different owners.  Last night I was noticing that my edits to my
> program sometimes weren't taking effect, this seems to be why.  Ideas?
>  I can delete the wrong one from mc probably, I just wanted to mention
> it.
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 alan  wheel    25549 Oct 22 10:55 pi.c
> -rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    25152 Oct 22 00:07 pi.c
> freebie# whoami
> root
> 
> 
> -- 
> Credit is the root of all evil.  - AB1JX

Likely one of them has  space or so in it's name. Use  

$ ls -l | vis -l

or some variation.

        -Otto

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