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Re: deleting a file ending with a dot


Hello, Morche!

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:26:55PM +0100, Morche Matthias wrote:
> Are You shure the filename ends with that dot? Maybe there are unreadable chars appended, so Yozu never gave the correct filename when deleting...

ls |od -ctu1 shows:
0000000   c   a   c   h   e   d   m   e   t   r   i   c   s   .  \n
         99  97  99 104 101 100 109 101 116 114 105  99 115  46  10
0000017

Far and explorer do not ask for the name, I just point and click.


> I tried to create a file ending with a dot and did not succeed.

I've created it on ext2, tar it, then untar to ntfs.


With kind regards,
Baurjan.

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