On 10/22/16 11:26, Alan Corey wrote:
> Bingo, a trailing space.  I would have thought that would get trimmed
> off somehow.  I don't normally put spaces in filenames, I must have
> fat-fingered something.  But I see no reason to keep trailing spaces.

um. Unix.

File names can have almost any character, and they are all equally valid
in all places in the file name.  This ain't CP/M or its derivatives
(like Windows).

(and it wouldn't surprise me if Linux "saves" you from this error, and
it would just make me hate it all the more)

Nick.



> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 alan  wheel    25549 Oct 22 10:55 pi.c\$
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    25152 Oct 22 00:07 pi.c \$
> 
>> Likely one of them has  space or so in it's name. Use
>>
>> $ ls -l | vis -l
>>
>> or some variation.
>>
>>      -Otto

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