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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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