UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I saved to disk using lynx, under ls it shows up but no matter what I have done back comes the statment no such file.
How do you erase these ls false readings or open what ls shows?

Show us the output from ls -l (in CODE tags).

Show us what you have done (in CODE tags) that produces the diagnostic message no such file?

What ls false readings are you trying to erase?

Show us the exact, complete diagnostic (in CODE tags) that is produced when you try to open your file?

PS: What do you want to do to your file after you open it?

ls -l shows the names of the files, the false readings are the listed files that are not really there,
The purpose is reading these files they are txt file mostly(I would rather not give you any more data) it is nothing but using lynx within it using the download function , which says -save to disk, then using ls to check for the file , finding it listed then trying to open it to read be it with a txt editor or what ever and getting no such file as an , but what can code tags do?

Probably Lynx hasn't finished (properly) downloading. It should create a file in /tmp (AFAIK) before transfer to destination. Need to monitor download function.

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We can't help if you won't help us see what is going wrong. We all know that ls -l shows the names of file AND a lot more; not just the names of files. SHOW us the ACTUAL output produced by the command: ls -l.

Telling us you are using a txt editor to open a file doesn't tell us what went wrong. SHOW us the ACTUAL diagnostic message(s) produced by your shell or by the text editor when it fails to open a file whose type, permissions, owner, group, size, timestamp, and name was displayed by ls -l.

Why would I give a complete stranger that kind of data?
So on it goes, sysiocod error #define ENOENT 2 /*No such file or directory */
Also it is a freebsd os not linux , shell t,
Prompt ~%
None of this is about programming only using unix to surf the web.
Also friend you sound liie a cop do you need my ip also, maybe my cc#,

Moderator's Comments:

Why would a complete stranger spend a single minute trying to help you? Seriously: PLEASE follow the forum rules that you agreed upon when registering. Be aware that using sarcasms violates rule#1!

You might give us that kind of information because you asked for our help diagnosing a problem and we need that information to help you diagnose that problem.

Now that we know you're using a BSD derived system, we know that the default ls output is likely to show certain control characters in filenames as sequences of other characters. I have never heard of a shell named t and I have no idea whether or not it contains a built-in ls utility that transforms names in some way.

Since some of the volunteers here know how some name transformations work, if we could actually see the exact diagnostic message produced by whatever utility is reporting "file not found" and the output from ls -l, we might be able to tell you how to open the file.

Maybe, if you're used to Windows instead of BSD, Linux, and UNIX Systems; you aren't aware that the files Abc and abc are two different files on those systems (even though either name would access a single file on many Windows systems).

Maybe there are <space>, <tab>, <carriage-return>, or <newline> characters in a filename. Multi-column ls output may completely hide that information; but ls -l output will in some cases make them that immediately obvious.

Maybe you have an alias installed for ls that is adding a character to the end of a filename to indicate the type of that file.

Maybe lots of other possibilities are affecting you. If you don't want to show us what is going on, that is your choice. I am not a cop. I do not want you IP address. I do not know what a cc# is, and do not want to know your cc#. All I want is information that will help us help you open your file(s). I do know that the standard ls utility on any BSD, Linux, or UNIX System will not show you the name of a file that does not exist.