On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Andy Hayward wrote:

On 7/16/06, Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
He folks,

i am facing this scenario i could never imagine to be possible (I am
serious, ok). Look the entry for file "q".
Does anybody here have an ideia about what is going on?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ touch "q"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ touch "q "
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r--  1 ach  wheel    0 Jul 16 21:24 q
-rw-r--r--  1 ach  wheel    0 Jul 16 21:25 q

-- ach

This message may contain mild peril.



Typing too fast, maybe?

Use wildcarding to help you see what is happening:

$ for F in * ; do
echo \"$F\"
done
"q"
"q "

Ciao
 --Louis

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