[lug] Two files with the same name in the same directory?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:00:07PM -0600, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
>WAY2FONKY$ ls -l .gnut_hosts*
>-rw-r--r--    1 d-man    d-man      257828 Oct 16 18:21 .gnut_hosts
>-rw-r--r--    1 d-man    d-man        1228 Oct 16 18:21 .gnut_hosts 
>WAY2FONKY$

Here are some commands that will give you more information:

   [2] guin:tmp$ touch '.gnut_hosts'
   [2] guin:tmp$ touch '.gnut_hosts '
   [2] guin:tmp$ ls -l .gnut_hosts*
   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Apr  7 22:00 .gnut_hosts
   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Apr  7 22:00 .gnut_hosts 
   [2] guin:tmp$ ls -b .gnut*
   .gnut_hosts  .gnut_hosts\ 
   [2] guin:tmp$ ls .gnut_hosts* | od -cb
   0000000   .   g   n   u   t   _   h   o   s   t   s  \n   .   g   n   u
           056 147 156 165 164 137 150 157 163 164 163 012 056 147 156 165
   0000020   t   _   h   o   s   t   s      \n
           164 137 150 157 163 164 163 040 012
   0000031

Sean
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