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Hi,

Hi recently downloaded the source code from Advanced Programming in the Unix Envrionment 2e and extracted the source from its tar file. The extracted files have these characteristics:
1) They can can be seen in a directory listing and brought up for viewing in emacs;
2) They cannot be seen by commands such as gcc and stat.

As a sanity check, I copied the contents of one file as I saw it in emacs to a new file that I crated in my home directory, and I am able to stat and gcc the new file. I demonstrate this problem in the listing at the end of this post.

I've tried modifying the permissions on the file that I extracted, but chmod does not see the file either.

What can I do to make these usable?

Many thanks.

--Phil

Code:

mrphil@ubuntu:~/source$ ls -l 
total 4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mrphil mrphil 340 2005-05-24 04:59 ls1.c

mrphil@ubuntu:~/source$ stat lsl.c
stat: cannot stat `lsl.c': No such file or directory


mrphil@ubuntu:~/source$ ls -l ../my.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 mrphil mrphil 340 2011-12-22 06:15 ../my.c
mrphil@ubuntu:~/source$ stat ../my.c
  File: `../my.c'
  Size: 340       	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 801h/2049d	Inode: 272315      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/  mrphil)   Gid: ( 1000/  mrphil)
Access: 2011-12-22 06:15:49.346022901 -0800
Modify: 2011-12-22 06:15:37.890034844 -0800
Change: 2011-12-22 06:15:37.890034844 -0800
mrphil@ubuntu:~/source$

seems to me like your file is called ls1.c (with a one) and you try to stat lsl.c (with an L) which isn't there ?

Regards
zxmaus

Oh dear God.

Take plank of wood in hand, and summarily whack over head three times with spirit!

Could this be another variation on the "off by one" theme . . . ?

Many thanks.