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Operating Systems Solaris test and .test in same directory Post 302154058 by blowtorch on Thursday 27th of December 2007 10:51:23 PM

12-27-2007

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Quote:

Originally Posted by porter

In PC-DOS and hence OS/2 and Windows, hidden is an attribute of a directory entry.

In UNIX there is merely a convention to treat files with a leading period as hidden.

Exactly! test and .test are totally different filenames. They have nothing to do with each other except that they are in the same filesystem and in the same directory.

Code:

bash-3.00# cd /tmp
bash-3.00# touch test .test
bash-3.00# ls -lid test .test
  37946100 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Dec 28 03:41 .test
  36778413 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Dec 28 03:41 test

As you can see, the inode numbers are different, making these different files, not representations of the same file.

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test-speech

test-speech(1)							   User Commands						    test-speech(1)

NAME

       test-speech - a test application provided by gnome-speech

DESCRIPTION

       test-speech  is a simple test application provided by gnome-speech. It is used to verify the driver for a speech engine, e.g., freetts-syn-
       thesis-driver, is funcioning properly, in order to make sure users can activate and interact with the gnome-speech driver successfully.

       GNOME Speech aims to be a general interface to various text-to-speech engines for the GNOME desktop. It allows the simple speaking of text,
       as well as control over various speech parameters such as speech pitch, rate, and volume.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/test-speech    a test application provided by gnome-speech

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-a11y-speech	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       libgnomespeech(3), attributes(5)

NOTES

       gnome-speech is written by Marc Mulcahy and Michael Meeks.

SunOS 5.11							    3 Dec 2006							    test-speech(1)