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# 8  
Old 10-22-2009
What I meant was asking you to post the output of the command 'ls -lb', without any find or xargs, issued from the directory where these "duplicate" directories reside. Because if it's not a filesystem problem, but just a naming problem (because of non-printing special characters) that's the easiest way to detect them.
# 9  
Old 10-22-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
What I meant was asking you to post the output of the command 'ls -lb', without any find or xargs, issued from the directory where these "duplicate" directories reside. Because if it's not a filesystem problem, but just a naming problem (because of non-printing special characters) that's the easiest way to detect them.

Oh yes you are right about the hidden character. Here is the output of the command by the way:

Code:
[root]# ls -lb

drwxrwxr-t  34 root       sappy 4096 Oct 10 16:17 public_html
drwxrwxrwx   2 sappy www         4096 May 26 11:37 public_html\

There is "\" on the end of one of them.

Regards,
Last edited by maiku09; 10-23-2009 at 02:12 PM..
# 10  
Old 10-22-2009
Then it's probably just an appended space. Try
Code:
cd "public_html "

You can check this by running 'ls -lbQ', which will additionally quote the entry, to see how many spaces are appended.

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Example output for future reference:
Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users 0 22. Okt 15:27 test.file     # regular file
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users 0 22. Okt 15:27 test.file\    # with 1 space appended
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users 0 22. Okt 15:27 test.file\ \  # with 2 spaces appended
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users 0 22. Okt 15:27 test.file\377 # with ASCII char 255 (0xFF) appended
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users 0 22. Okt 15:27 test.file\t   # with tab appended
-rw-r--r-- 1 pludi users 0 22. Okt 15:27 test.file\r   # with carriage return appended

# 11  
Old 10-22-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
Then it's probably just an appended space. Try
Code:
cd "public_html "

You can check this by running 'ls -lbQ', which will additionally quote the entry, to see how many spaces are appended.

Pludi,

Thank you for your support! That did the trick, I was able to cd into the directory.
But still curious of it its impossible to cd by specifying inode.

Thank for your help,

Best Regards,
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