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Old 11-04-2011
Displaying trailing spaces in a filename; Korn Shell
Korn Shell on AIX 6.1

In one of our directories, we have 2 files with same names but one of those file's name has 3 trailing spaces
Code:
ls *.ctl

rconf.ctl
rconf.ctl     #this file has 3 trailing spaces

Is there any way we could display these trailing spaces ?
Last edited by radoulov; 11-04-2011 at 11:36 AM.. Reason: Code tags!
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Old 11-04-2011
How exactly do you want the output to appear?
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Old 11-04-2011
With GNU ls you can use -b, not sure about AIX though.
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Old 11-04-2011
find and echo may help:
Code:
find . -name "*.ctl" -exec echo "{}" \;

EDIT: I can't remember AIX-find's option for not traveling subdirectories, but the man-page should tell.
EDIT2: I should read more carefully: trailing != leading
Last edited by cero; 11-04-2011 at 12:00 PM..
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Old 11-04-2011
Can i get a hyphen printed for every trailing space like

rconf.ctl---
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Old 11-04-2011
Code:
ls *.ctl | sed "s/ /-/g"

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Old 11-04-2011
Code:
ls *.ctl* |tr ' ' '-'

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