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Hi All ,

I am having a set of file, when i list like ls -l *filename* it is listing all file. If is do ls -l filename.ext it is not listing the file. I dodnt know what will be the cause

Example:

Code:

$ ls -l  *13712.*  ---- listing in wild card worked
total 136864
-rw-r--r--   1 p68     sup   232245 Aug 31 10:09 98999.A
-rw-r--r--   1 p68     sup  1074998 Aug 31 10:09 98999.C
-rw-r--r--   1 p68     sup   967005 Aug 31 10:09 98999.N
-rw-r--r--   1 p68     sup        0 Aug 31 10:09 98999.P
-rw-r--r--   1 p68     sup  10554180 Aug 31 10:09 98999.R
-rw-r--r--   1 p68     sup  57209068 Aug 31 10:09 98999.U
$ ls 98999.A -----   Listing as invidual didnt worked
98999.A not found

Thanks in Advance,
Arun

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---------- Post updated at 19:04 ---------- Previous update was at 19:01 ----------

You are maybe not in the good directory... (you made an ls -l of *something*, it replied something completely different which makes me think you listed the content of a directory *something*...
My 2 cents...

No the file which i am searching in in same directory

Run your wildcard listing again but use "ls -lb" to see if your filename contains any unprintable characters.

And also:

Code:

ls -lisa  *13712.*  | sed -n l

(That is sed space hyphen enn space ell).

Armed with the two "ls" outputs we will know the name of the file.