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# 15  
Old 03-15-2011
I'm confused here, it looks like the filename is actually 1300212970.H27173P31627.ns1.cybernet.com.br,S=6301:2, but ls is reporting it as 1300212970.H27173P31627.ns1.cybernet.com.br,S\=6301:2,

Perhaps it's some sort of feature of you version of ls that escapes equal signs.

You could test by touching a file a=b and see what ls is reporting:

Code:
# touch a=b
# ls a*

# 16  
Old 03-15-2011
Chubler,

Solved, and now we can understand the behavior.

After execute the touch we have the result

root@ns1 [/home/ronaldo/teste]# ls -al aaa*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Mar 15 22:49 aaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 15 22:49 aaa\=bbb

Everytime that we use an = shel include before the equal a backslash.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Ronaldo
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