On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:14 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > the error message will claim "the file already exists" whether it's a file, directory, or anything else. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
