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# 8  
Old 07-24-2009
Try

Code:
rm ./filename

What platform is this?
# 9  
Old 07-24-2009
this is my home directory and that is a good question about duplicate file names... these were created from a script I ran and could not remove after script was completed (ran script multiple times before I saw this)

Code:
lpiva8026 $ls -l
total 5
-rwxr-xr-x    1 schroeks x_exp           768 Jul 21 13:16 cdrrd
-rwxr-----    1 schroeks x_exp          1492 Jul 23 12:56 cdrrd1
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 23 10:00 rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 08:24 rrd15CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 11:37 rrd15CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 11:59 rrd15CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 08:47 rrd15CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 15:48 rrd21CEM
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 15:39 rrd21CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 23 08:12 rrd21CEM

# 10  
Old 07-24-2009
What is the operating system? Could you post the output of ls -lb also?
# 11  
Old 07-24-2009
I'd think about running fsck.

---------- Post updated at 05:23 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:20 PM ----------

Actually, could you run an ls -li too?!
# 12  
Old 07-24-2009
this is my home directory (current) this is a script that I ran multiple times and then noticed there was several empty files with the same name in the directory

Code:
xxxxxxxxxx $ls -l
total 5
-rwxr-xr-x    1 schroeks x_exp           768 Jul 21 13:16 cdrrd
-rwxr-----    1 schroeks x_exp          1492 Jul 23 12:56 cdrrd1
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 23 10:00 rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 08:24 rrd15CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 11:37 rrd15CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 11:59 rrd15CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 08:47 rrd15CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 15:48 rrd21CEM
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 21 15:39 rrd21CEC
-rw-r--r--    1 schroeks x_exp             0 Jul 23 08:12 rrd21CEM

# 13  
Old 07-24-2009
In addition to:

Code:
ls -lab

can you also run another way of seeing funny characters in filenames:

Code:
ls -lia | sed -n l

The "-i" switch to ls is so we can see the inode numbers.

And in case there are trailing spaces:

Code:
ls -1 | sed -e "s/ /SPACE/g"

# 14  
Old 07-24-2009
Hi Methyl

We already established that there's no spaces (I thought there was at first).

What we didn't establish is the OS.

Also, if we could see the code that created the files, we might be more enlightened?
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