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Old 08-12-2009
ls command showing skewed listing
Hello,

I'm running the ls command on an HP-UX 11i platform and am getting skewed listings. In other words, I see 3 columns of perfectly aligned file names, except 1 file is shifted by 2 or 3 bytes. The file to the immediate left of it seems to be causing the problem, for when I do an ls on that file explicitly, it returns "file not found." I have encountered this in the past and for the life of me cannot remember how to correct it. The file name either has an unreadable character or something funky in it. I am the owner of the file and have proper permissions to read and write it. Any help on how to correct this "bad" file would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian
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Old 08-12-2009
Use the -b switch with ls to identify any special characters (will show as \<num>)
 
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