On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Jack Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the following example, I'm trying to copy a file (wrongly) > in a directory I don't own and which is write-protected: > > cp factor.rex factor.rex.bak > cp: factor.rex.bak: Invalid character in program > > "Invalid character in program"?? > > rm also returns this when I use rm illegally. Was it always > like this?
Hmm, I don't see that error message in the stock /bin/cp or /bin/rm. Are you running your own version of them or have shell script wrappers for them or something? What's the output of "which cp rm"? Philip Guenther
