On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:32:40 -0800 David <[email protected]> dijo: >On 02/24/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> >>> I just created a file named Desktop in the folder Desktop. >> >> Denis, >> >> Interesting. I didn't know it could be done. > >The directory and file may not be at the same level, but they may be >nested without issues.
But I continued to get the same error message even after I renamed the file. Thus, the file and directory name were different. And Catfish said that no file with the same name as the folder existed. Regarding spaces and scripts, I have only a couple very short scripts that I use, and they do not access files or folders with spaces in them. Furthermore, I usually use Gnome terminal, which happily automatically escapes all spaces in files that I copy and paste into it. I would say that the majority of files that I create have spaces in them, and I never have a problem. As for the 'funky' ½ character, that is a valid codepoint in UTF-8. Is Xubuntu or ext4 not UTF-8 compliant? I use far 'funkier' characters in filenames all the time when I need a transcription in IPA. Considering that the error messages that Thunar and Gnome terminal are giving me say 'the *file* already exists' leads me to conclude that somehow the filesystem thinks I am creating a file rather than a folder. Moreover, the file that it thinks exists does not actually exist. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
